Get ready to get your mind blown.

The other day I was kindly waiting on a bench in the Undergraduate Writing Center in Powell library minding my own business until it would be my turn to meet with a writing counselor. As one does when her phone is dead, I was eavesdropping on the meeting between the girl before me and the writing counselor. What I subsequently heard changed my life forever.

The girl was elaborating on her paper, expressing her passion for what she was writing about, when I heard her say this:

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There are scientists and consequently government officials that know exactly when our world is going to run out of resources or become too polluted and die. This information is kept from the public because it would result in mass chaos.

Is that not the most crazy idea you have ever heard?! There will be a day that some people know is coming where the human population will no longer be able to survive.

It could end right now! Or now!

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There are studies that come out and say CO2 levels are rising or that the amount of plastic is going to surpass the amount of fish in the ocean, but there are never explanations of the consequences of this!

The girl in the Writing Center changed my life forever and she will never know. I hope she becomes a famous scientist that is able to miraculously reverse the effects. Better yet, I hope I become a famous scientist that is able to miraculously do that!

Despite her ideas being so very terrifying, it got me thinking that I need to start appreciating everyday because it could all end at any time! Even though the world probably is not going to end right now, maybe this will change my attitude towards life if I could act like every moment is the last!

What would you do if you knew when the world would end?