Ame (guest) 25 Jul 2010 20:52
It all started many many years ago, when I was young and was a frequent player or neopets (a kids site where you adopt a virtual pet and take care of it). I must have been about 7 or 8.
On the website there was a neoboards thing where you could chat with other neopet players. The certain part of the forum I used to go on was full of stupid spam but it was all silly stuff there.
Someone ten minutes ago had posted a topic called 'The world is ending in 1 minute!' so I thought I'd go point out that it was nine minutes ago now and nothing had happened, trying to be clever. But when I viewed the topic, soemone else had already posted. Their message read "No it isn't. The world is ending in 2012."
Without further ado, I switched the computer off and ran downstairs feeling horribly sick with a stomach ache. I ran into mum and said "I feel really ill!!" then rushed to lie on the couch. I was petrified already.
Maybe 6 months later we did a Science project about planets at school. We were given a list of useful websites to research about planets. One of these websites had a big picture of the earth with a red object flying towards it and the subtitle '21st December, 2012'. I was so scared but did nothing.
For a while I just prayed it wouldn't happen every night, and hid from 2012.
Then the movie came out. I remember seeing a commercial and feeling so scared. I went to see a different movie and saw a wall-sized poster for the movie. I plucked up to the courage to say to my friend "That's scary, right?" and she shrugged and went "um yeah.". I did not feel reassured!
Since then I just kept away from 2012. I couldn't bring myself to even write those numbers. I used to type the number '2' into google and then remembered close my eyes to type the rest of it as I couldn't bear reading the search suggestions.
Then today I found a question about 2012 on Y!A. I clicked on it and discovered about this 'Mayan calendar'. I realized there was something behind this weird theory, 2012, and started to research. Luckily I found this site and now my fear is so much less. It's amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! somehow I am still miniscule-ly scared, and pray it won't happen everyday, but I'm sure my fears will be gone soon. :)
I LOVE YOU GUYS.
~a teen with anxiety who hates all these lying people! :D
