F**k 2012, I’m ready now!
I took this picture of CODEFC’s art on Curtain Road almost a year ago and have thought about it a lot since, so I decided to dig it up (a.k.a. scroll through the hundreds of drunken pictures I’ve taken over the last 2 years until I found it).
Aesthetics aside (because it’s clearly well done), I love what it conveys. Most obviously, it references the upcoming Summer Olympics, which most Londoners will agree, is sure to cause total havoc around the city in 261 days *according to the official website. But when I saw it, I was immediately reminded of the fact that the world is almost definitely going to end on December 21st, 2012.
Alright maybe not.
After all, what do I know? The fact is, I’m such a digital girl that I can’t even get through the wikipedia page on the subject because it’s more than 140 characters long and/or doesn’t involve a ‘Like’ button.
But I have been thinking a lot lately about…
- The many natural disasters that fill my Twitter feed
- Radiation spreading around the world from Fukushima
- The deaths of Jack Layton and Steve Jobs (if Layton, one of the healthiest and most positive men in the world, and Jobs, one of the most powerful and richest men in the world couldn’t get cured, what hope do we all have??)
- The impending eruption of Iceland’s Katla volcano which could cause me to be stranded in this country for the rest of my days!! God forbid!
- How after the 2010 Oil Spill we were told we should probably never eat Fish from the Atlantic ocean anymore, but who can live without sushi?
- AND my inability to get motivated to do something creative in my spare time (very unlike me!!) which is causing me to feel unfulfilled and bored.
Clearly we have to agree with the radicals and conclude that something wonky is definitely going on these days.
So I say bring it! Time to get crazy these days! And not just via an outlandish post! Fill up your calendars, go on some trips, lose a little less sleep over work, stop reading gossip magazines, buy the shoes you’ve been eyeing (we are a commercial society after all), move to another country (again), reconsider being vegetarian (unless you’re Type O and believe in that whole blood type business), give blood, stop cleaning (what a waste of time!), smile always (sarcastic smirks allowed), help others (mostly because it feels good, actually caring is a bonus!), and love people that love you back. Cuz really. No matter what happens on December 21st, just like that graffiti is no longer on the wall where I found it, we too aren’t going to last forever. So we may as well live it large!
