Silly Childhood Fears
In just a couple of days the calendar will be changing to 2010, which is even more significant considering its the start to an entirely new decade. No more of the single digit years, millennium babies are hitting the big 1-0 and soon we will be flung face first into the God-awful tweens and teens as the new decade marches on. I graduated from high school in 2000, so my 10-year high school reunion will be taking place this next fall (assuming someone actually gets around to planning it), and that leads me to the memory of a conversation that took place in 1994. At the ripe old age of 12, I was one of the big fish in the Elementary School pool. In class one day, we were assigned to groups of 6 or 8 people and told to get together and work on a presentation. My group was a little less than focused and, for whatever reason, were instead consumed with the thoughts of Y2K, which was 6 years away. We sat and talked for close to hour about how the world was going to end. We all agreed it was c