'Yes... but what if we could'

How many things become possible if we could but utter the words 'Yes, but what if we could.'? How many previously locked down hearts and minds become ever so slightly more open to the world of possibility? 'The Core' has a number of nice quotes amidst the cheesy dialogue and this is the one with the best line reading. Well done, actor known as Tucci. I'm going to try and not mention 'The Core' for a long long time now. And 'Fish Story' too should really go not talked about for a while! Gosh, 'Fish Story' was good...

Excuse me a moment while I fend off the frenzied Clomp. He was sprayed with some soap and went into a berserk rage. <Pause. Changes curtains. Removes all the molten marzipan.>

As we approach the end of the Mayan long calendar, which so many people interpret as the end of the world rather than as the end of an era, it's a good time to consider the power of possibility. There are so many problems in the world, apparently intractable, and so many challenges that it seems to be impossible that any of us could affect a positive difference in any way. But what if we could? What if there could be tranquillity in the Middle East, food for all of the world, exploration beyond the stars and time for all to be fulfilled. Wouldn't it be nice? The task therefore seems to be not to fix the problems but to allow people to think it's possible we could. Just that smallest hope would be enough for it all to happen. Kennedy said we would go to the Moon and we did.

<"Bah, I scoff at your naivete!" BOOF! "And I don't like liquorice!">

Sigh. If only the world believed it could be better then it could happen. Education is the key and it's not happening. Maybe the end of Mayan world will cause a change of some kind.

Looking back and looking forward there is much happening. In the next few days Christmas will happen. Even in my atheistic state I do appreciate it as an event, backing up the Solstice as it does. Black Month can be declared over with the advent of tomorrow and daylight shall increase once more. The annual cycle shall be renewed. That's what the Mayan calendar was really about. A long, long cycle that would eventually renew in the creation of a new world, a world unrecognisable from that at the beginning of the cycle. Their world is dead now, and ours shall be when next the Mayan long calendar recycles. I have waxed philosophical and now shall wane.

Bad things happen. People destroy buildings full of people. Planes are hijacked and brought down. Mass murders happen in schools. People say these are unsolvable problems and that we can't prevent such things from happening. Well, yes... but what if we could?

O.