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2010, the End is Near

Tomorrow is the last day of 2009. Very soon the tenth year of the 21st. century will dawn upon us. ‘Happy New Year’ wishes are cordially exchanged among friends and strangers since Christmas day as the whole world getting into celebration mode to welcome the new Gregorian year.

Who will survive 2010?

Every coming of new year we set out new resolution we hope to accomplish, but with each passing year, we never really achieved anything. Even though each year we promised to be a better person, we are never that serious to change ourselves, or the people surrounding us, and far away from changing the world. Everyday we are still polluting the earth, ignoring our neighbors, turning a blind eyes to people in need, etcera etcetera. We easily forget our promises because that’s what human do, …and then we came to another coming of new year. For a short while we paused to reflect at what we have been doing all year long and then started out new promises while our past ones are left unfulfilled. Every year we stayed in that infinite loop and managed ourselves to going nowhere.

The term ‘Happy New Year’ has become such a cliche that it is now merely a tradition to signify the presence of hope. What is so ‘happy’ and hopeful about the coming 2010? One can senses a dark aura of doom lurking around the corner. The world is in hopeless state. Nations are still in conflicts, innocent lives are being killed on daily basis to justify unholy wars and the ‘leader of change’ is just another western rethoric that promise only false hope. No concrete solution has been achieved to previous and current crises in the world, and yet we are heading to a direction where more crises will arise while the current ones will escalate further.

Religion is getting less relevant and the world population is getting more corrupted with lust, selfishness and greed. Ironically, the more human forget about religion and about God, the more God will make aware of His presence. That will simply translates to more disasters and tragedies. How else can human perceive God without being subjected to losing control to his delicate life and forced to accept that there is higher force at play.

In Malaysia, politicians are painting the country’s future black. Desperation and clinching for power has left the country in embarassing state. Personal gains sacrifice the good of many and the people are left to fend for themselves. 2010 will bring inflation and higher cost of living with the introduction of Goods and Services Tax (GST).

So as the citizens of earth are being jovial and about to partying all night on December 31, as some of us are getting drunk and forgetting ourselves and everything else, please try to remember we are a step closer to, and are celebrating our own destruction.

The world and our biological body are destabilizing every second, minute and hour, politically, environmentally and in every other aspects known to man. We will eventually reach a saturated point where our total destruction is inevitable and shall meet our ultimate doom.

So (smirk) to all friends and strangers, Happy New Year!