[ivandiadser]

i teach high-school students, and because most in my classes know that my attitudes about the world are...different...they occasionally ask me what i think is going to happen in 2012. when the conversation starts, most say that they're frightened. they tell me that some of their peers have given up hope for the future because they feel that it's all going to end so why bother. they ask me how i can be so happy and so patient and so forgiving every day when the world is, in their words, so screwed up and full of corruption.

i tell them that i'm happy and patient and forgiving every day because i know something that very few people understand: that i am *meant* to be here at this time and in this place, that i *chose* to be here, that i am connected to the source of all things and that this source *wants* me to succeed, that this source has nothing but love and support for me, and that everything that is happening now is happening on purpose and for a very specific reason. i tell them that i don't think the world is going to end in cataclysm in december of 2012. i tell them that i think the world will begin again, that we will be transformed, that our old ways of thinking and the old limitations that once were will fall away to reveal endless new possibilities.

i tell them that i am so excited i can hardly stand it!

and you know what they say every single time? "i'm not afraid anymore. i feel better now. that sounds amazing! i'm excited, too!"

that makes *my* heart sing.