Anyway, this is a super cool idea by Candy Chang.

an interesting project belonging to public installation artist and urban planner Candy Chang. The artist managed to turn one of the walls of an abandoned house in New Orleans into a massive chalkboard where the residents can write their life-long dreams. This is also a call to action, as the first one has to do when chasing a dream is to identify it. Here is more from the project developer: “It’s about turning a neglected space into a constructive one where we can learn the hopes and aspirations of the people around us. It turns out this entire process has been a great lesson, experience, and project in itself

So what do you want to do before you die?

The timing is impeccable; considering that 2012 a mere year ahead. I don't know whether I should believe the much-feared and speculated 'myth' going around about the world's end but with all the political unrest in the Middle East, corruption of governments worldwide, natural disasters with Japan taking the latest hit, I am inclined to. Reading my 24th February post, I can't say I am feeling any better. Still the same old, I guess.

It got me thinking; what do I turn to? I can't turn to religion for 'inner peace' and meaning since I am not inflated with any but that's because I haven't found any that feels 'right'. Which reminds me of a particular conversation when I was still in primary school, my friends telling me that- to my dismay and utter horror- people who don't inflate themselves to so-and-so religion will go to hell, no matter what good they did in their life. That really wreck me badly and thus questioning how loving God is if, just because some good people don't necessarily believe in the religion but most likely believe in Him, He sends them to an eternality of suffering and retribution in Hell? Basically, I don't want to insincerely join one in order to save my soul and go to Heaven.

And the reason why I am so afraid of apocalypse disasters and horror films is because I can't imagine what I would do if I am ever caught in that type of situations. There's always the hero, the coward who scare the shit of him/herself so much that he/she would create unnecessary problems, the brave ones who try to survive and save their love ones or the hero but die doing so or the ones who just doesn't have the chance to do anything from the very beginning. Which one will I be? And how would I have the will to live if every loved one and everything was wiped from the face of the earth?

But there have been some counter-arguments from scientists that 2012 is not all that it is made to be. There was this one article that said that it was merely that the Mayan Calendar had it wrong, that the archaeologists had found previously missing pieces of the Calendar with dates till about the year 4000 and that they were merely suggesting the end of a new cycle. There's even articles saying that the Mayan calculations are off by 50 to a hundred years.

So to believe or not to believe? We'll have to wait and see.