Once-in-a-lifetime

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.

Hopefully this.