Hi bob3160,
Agree with you totally. Yesterday can hurt us no more. The past is water under the bridge. The future has not arrived yet until tomorrow, so no sense worrying about that either. So all we have to live for is today. So give it your fullest effort and enjoy every minute as the present lasts.
The 2012 thing is a New Age issue resting on a way of interpreting the old Mayan Indian Elders' prophesies because a certain point in the galaxies is coming around again after roughly 26.000 years (Serpent of/in the Universe, their Snake God, Sun behind the Sun of the old Egyptians, could be something like when Moses parted the waters at the red sea, a cataclysm of some sort, some folks think about a polar shift and all the turmoil that will bring, not a good place here in Holland to experience such a fate). Well 2012 is an "occult" believe sort of.
The year 1000 brought the same anxieties for the Christians, in a nearby village no church nor dikes were being built, because the End of the World was imminent, well you know about similar issues before the Turn of the Millennium in the Year 2000, what happened? Nothing out of the obvious, goods became more expensive, and we just went on doing our daily things,
polonus