Speech: A requirement 1

Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. We always look forward in the beginning of things. From the birth of the first born baby, the blooming of a flower, or the sight of the sun’s magnificent rays after a long cold rainy day. But it is most of the time the end of things that causes paranoia in all of us. A good example of which is 2012. A movie based on the ancient Mayan calendar, like most calendars, it is cyclical and unending. As one cycle ends, another is bound to begin. It is a prediction about the coming of the end of the world. Its destructive portrayal of what might happen has caused people to worry for their lives and in fact I worry for my own. It is evident that somehow people fear to know the end but still we are curious of what it has in store for us. It came to me though that what I fear the most is not dying painfully by being crushed by buildings or boiled by the earth’s molten lava. What I fear most is dying tragically and suddenly without being able to bid my last goodbyes and tell the people I care about how much I love them. It would be hard to wake up and realize everything is gone and that yesterday could have been your chance to prove your worth and live life to the fullest. Death is a situation we will all have in common with. But the events before our dying day will always depict the wonderful beginnings of a “once upon a time” life and finally the could still be, for you and me - “and we all lived happily ever after”.  It is after all the details of how we have lived that will actually live on. If the predictions on 2012 may do so happen, the end of time should not be feared so much then. What should cloud our minds are the simple yet important regrets we will be burdened with even after death, what could have been, and the might have been. Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

~myeviltwin