Truly Scary Stuff

My husband wonders why I refuse to watch horror movies, yet I have no problem with shows and documentaries about doomsday, the Nazis keeping people in camps, psycho killer ex-wives, rape, etc. And I don’t have an answer for that. You won’t catch me seeing anything with monsters, possessed children, blood baths… but I can stay in front of the screen to see stuff that happens in the real world without blinking.

I was thinking of this last night when I recorded a documentary on The History Channel about Nostradamus’ prophecies and 2012 (which makes part of the Armageddon Week special). I’ve been very interested in the subject lately, and since The History Channel does such a great job with everything , I decided it was worth it. I haven’t been able to sit and watch all of it yet (mostly due to another nasty cold), but the 30 minutes I saw this morning are enough to make you think these are scary times we live in.

I remember when I was a child, I avoided any kind of conversation that had anything to do with the end of the world. I grew up in the “The Day After” era, when every day I wondered if I was going to get trapped in the mushroom cloud after WWIII started. Now I get to see the news every day about all these horrible things happening all around me, and I have to learn to digest it.

One of the things that caught my attention about the documentary is how ancient cultures like the Maya insisted so much in the human kind’s being in touch with nature and each other in order to overcome whatever came its way. So I don’t think this kind of message has to be scary, but rather a call to stop and rethink our future as a civilization and what we’re doing for and against each other.

We cannot stop disasters, we cannot change fate. What’s truly scary is how we keep on living not being aware of what’s to come and how we can help each other. Whether it’s the end or a new beginning.