Jacinta Whitcome:

It is snowing on a daily basis here. Like so many other places, Bergen is getting record amounts of snow and I keep thinking about how my father has talked about 'the coming earth changes' since I was a kid. I used to be so afraid of the thought. I believed it so thoroughly.

The world is going to end soon.

I had no information to prove it, just this awful feeling that I was somehow responsible, somehow more responsible than the rest of the world. I used to think that I knew things that nobody else new...that is...except my father. I understand now that a more complex debate within the topic of the world ending and how human it is to believe such things. I understand there are environmental dangers that humans have created over the years. I understand that we are noticing more upheaval but I do not believe the world is going to end or even that there is an energetic shift of human consciousness that needs to take place for the world to be okay.

I often wonder where that belief that used to be so strong has gone, much like Temple Grandin wonder's in the movie, Temple Grandin, where people go when they die. They are here and then they are gone. "Where to they go?".  I have worked hard on trying to understand what is happening in the world, much like my religious and spiritual-oriented friends and family. I have come to... not a conclusion... but a different thinking pattern. I don't believe, or "feel strongly", I listen and wonder and explore information. That is all. On March 9th I turn 29, which is an age that scares some people but I decided that it is time for me to think about what scares me  and then to gather information about it and then to think about it some more, without trying to determine and answer, believe and prove. In four days I will be 29 years of age. I have learned a lot in my life, I have suffered and I have also seen happiness and goodness.