WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
So fast. Another year past.
2011 gone. 2012 soon upon.
QUESTIONS
How did you do? What did you do? What did you do that really mattered?
Have you even thought about it that way?
Or …
WERE YOU JUST TOO BUSY?
Have you considered how precious and fleeting each moment is? How each breath extending our existence is an amazing blessing on this blue-green magical orb called earth?
An earth that travels through space at over 1,000 miles per hour and moves around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour?
TOO MUCH TO DO
Or did you have too much to do to wonder at that?
I did.
Have you considered that if the expansion rate of the universe was changed by one part in a trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion, faster or slower, life on earth would not exist?
TOO MANY EMAILS
Or did you have too many e-mails to think about that?
My inbox was pretty much always full. Now my mobile text message box is too.
TOO MANY TOO MANY’S
And Twitter. And Facebook. LinkedIn. GooglePLus.
GoofyPlus.
A REALLY BIG INCH
Did you know that if a measuring tape were stretched across the universe and segmented in one-inch increments (billions upon indescribable gazillions of inches) representing the force strengths of nature (gravity, electromagnetism, weak and strong nuclear forces) and the tape was moved by just one inch in either direction, life on earth would not exist?
TOO MANY MEANINGLESS MEETINGS
Or were you too busy to think about that because you had to prepare for another meaningless meeting.
Too busy here – too many meetings.
This is me – in action. Dressed to kill. In more ways than one.
Do you know what would happen if the cosmological constant (the energy density of space) was not tuned to one-part in a hundred million billion billion billion billion billion (10 followed by 120 zeroes)?
Life on earth would not exist.
TOO MANY PETTY WARS
Or were you too embroiled in petty internecine political turf wars, in business and life, to consider that?
I was too embroiled.
A LIGHT YEAR
Is about 5,878,625,373,183.61 miles.
A LONG MINUTE
Globally, 21 children die every minute from poverty.
In Sub-Saharan Africa—1 in 8 children dies before age 5.
And,
“They die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.”
- Unicef
SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS
So fast.
Another year past.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
2011 gone.
2012 soon upon.
John Lennon wrote a song about this 39 years ago called “So This Is Christmas.” The lyrics were both timely and timeless.
TIMELY
They were turbulent times. Times much like today. Differing only in the increased speed, ferocity and utter destructiveness with which things can happen.
TIMELESS
The lyrics transcend time. Race. Creed. Sex. Religion. Age. Not many do. The words are a calling to stop, reflect, consider, act, and hope … hope for a better future.
2012, the road ahead, beckons
Many will come.
Many will go.
You. Me. Who ever knows?
Best wishes.
SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS – WARNING – GRAPHIC IMAGES
So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
So this is Christmas
A very Merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let’s stop all the fight
A very Merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
And what have we done
Another year over
A new one just begun
And so happy Christmas
We hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very Merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
War is over, if you want it
War is over now
War is over now
Thanks for being reading in 2011
Best of luck to you and yours in 2012.
- Steve Kayser
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Steve Kayser is a PR & Media Relations Director, radio host and an award-winning business writer. His unique (some say bizarre) approach to PR, Marketing and Media Relations has been documented in a marketing best practices case study by MarketingSherpa, profiled as a “Purple Cow,” by author Seth Godin, and featured in the best-selling books, The New Rules of Marketing and PR by David Meerman Scott and "Tuned In: Uncover the Extraordinary Opportunities That Lead to Business Breakthroughs" by Craig Stull, Phil Myers, and David Meerman Scott.
Steve has also been featured in the following publications: A Marketer’s Guide to e-Newsletter Publishing, Credibility Branding, Innovation Quarterly, B2B Marketing Trends, PRWEEK, Faces of E-Content, and The Ragan Report. Steve's writings have appeared in Corporate Finance Magazine, CEO Refresher, Entrepreneur Magazine, Business 2.0, and Fast Company Magazine – among many others.. Google+
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