Things You Don't Have to Worry About

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Singer David Bowie has died at age 69. Actor Alan Rickman has died at age 69. Actor Dan Haggerty has died at age 74. For a moment I thought a pattern was emerging. I was thinking that it was a dangerous year to be 69 years old. But it's just coincidence so anyone who is 69 this year can relax. You don't have to worry about it. When it was 1969, I remember worrying about it turning 1970. T hat just seemed impossible - that the world could continue to exist past the 60s. But go on it did, into the blah 70s, the big-haired 80s and so on. I didn't have to worry about it. Y2K was another thing we didn't have to worry about. All that preparation and the world's computers didn't go rogue and destroy the Earth. In the 70s, President Jimmy Carter said the world would run out of oil by the year 2011. We didn't have to worry about it. Didn't happen. In 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder said we were all going to die in misery due to a coming ice age. Al Gore told us in his movie that by 2014 all the ice in the Arctic would be melted away by warming. Turns out we didn't have to worry about either of those things. So, if you're 69 or you know someone who is 69, don't worry about it. It's not your year to die, be encased in a glacier, or drown in Arctic sea waters. But maybe, just maybe, it's a good year to stop listening to these people and their predictions of doom.