Just a thought about 2012

The other day, I was programming an old VCR to record a TV show. I noticed that it's date/ time feature was limited to 20 years. That meant that as of Dec. 1999 it would no longer be programmable for a date beyond that. Now here I am in 2011 still programming that VCR and ignoring the date. The time is the only reference that the VCR needs for today.
Taking that in mind, I realized that just because the date feature was no longer appropriate, the VCR still functioned perfectly.
This made me think about the Myan calendar which is expires in 2012. Obviously, this means that when they (the Myans) produced that calendar, they ran out of room to extend it beyond 2012. Just because their calendar ends in 2012 does not mean that everything else ends. The world will continue beyond 2012 as usual and the Myan calendar will be remembered as an artifact.
When the calendar on your wall runs out (Dec. 31st each year) the only thing that comes to an end is that years calendar. You just put up the newest year and start over. Nothing else stops.
Bottom line is that the world is not coming to an end in 2012, just the Myan calendar has run out of space to show dates beyond that.
Now you can rest easy knowing that your world will continue...