Death of the Planet Earth?????????

I don't know about you, but it seems like everybody is always talking about the end of the world. "It's going to end very, very soon," they say, "Perhaps even this year!" Funny thing is, every single doomsday rumor is different. I have a list of things that people say will be the end of the world. These are just things I've heard of, but I think that there are many more.

• Because the Mayan Calender ends on 2012, the Earth will, too.
• There's a movie called 2012 about the world ending in, you guessed it, 2012. This means that the world will end in 2012.
• A giant asteroid will hit the Earth in 2020, causing the planet to fall apart.
• Any date constructed out of the same numbers is cursed, so the end of the world will be on the next one: 12/12/12.
• On 12/21/12, the Earth will go through a portal and flip upside down.

Sure, it seems possible. And when everyone's talking about it, it gets to your head and you start to believe it. But here's the thing: it isn't gonna happen. And if you don't believe me, I'm going to give you some reasons why we're safe.

• Just because a calendar ends doesn't mean the world will.
• If the world was really going to end in 2012, there wouldn't be any 2013 calendars.
• The end of the world is an exciting topic. People make a lot of money with movies (like 2012) or books about the apocalypse. But here's a life lesson: don't believe everything you read.
• Every calendar has to end sometime, and the Mayan Calendar just happened to end in 2012.
• The Mayans didn't have leap years, so their 2012 happened decades ago.
• If the world was ending, we wouldn't be living our lives like usual.
• Some people are just superstitious. They believe in myths that might not always be true.

As you should now know, we are not on the brink of death like you may have originally thought. We're safe - and that's the end of that.