As much as I bemoan my missed opportunity of queuing a post for 12/12/12 at 12:00pm (darn those three AP's--I accidentally fell asleep
before doing so), having at least this post to commemorate such a wondrous
occasion will suffice. As my AP Environmental Science teacher mentioned today, this alignment of shared
numbers won't occur again until 3012. This comment roused my thoughts to the
concept of change: how different will the people one thousand years from now be
as they share the same experience that we've had today? Considering how much
the world and its inhabitants have changed over the course of my lifetime,
probably very much so. Though I am admittedly young by society's standards (17
already?), I feel as though my generation has aged the most compared to the
most recent previous generations in American history. I sometimes recall
flashes of memory about my young childhood, using my parents' dinosaur of a
computer to log onto PBS kids.org or to play ISPY, rewinding our Disney VHS
tapes (though we still have those), and, on one particular occasion, being
confused as to what the big fuss about some "world trade center"
(whatever that was) was all about. A lot has happened in the past 17 years:
Pluto being booted out of the planet lineup, the World Wide Web boom, cell
phones (or at least less antiquated ones), DVD's (so long VHS), iGizmos (and
the drastic decline of CD's), laptops (in a similar vein as cell phones),
televisions and computers in general not weighing 200 pounds, a break from the
(as the internet phrases it) "boring-white-guy-syndrome" as far as
presidents go, several wars and near misses, 9/11 and the war on terrorism,
no-child-left-behind, many awesome television shows (and the unfortunate
degradation of TV in recent years), the Great Recession, and so much more. What will this ever-changing future hold? Well, I guess we'll just have to
find out.