MotherBraggers

The year is almost over, but that’s not all.

For those of us who haven’t already penned the best-selling book that came to us in a dream, or created our hilariously irreverent, ad-soaked blog site, or given birth to a child who will grow up to cure a disease – the pressure is really on!

You see, some people believe the world will end when the Mayan Calendar does, Dec. 21, 2012.
I think most of us think that’s ridiculous.

We know the world will actually end much sooner, when The Oprah Winfrey Show goes off the air, Sept, 9, 2011. And not because we worship her, fear her, or won’t know what to do with that particular hour every day.

We know that after that date, we’ll never reach our own goals of personal fame. Not in the way that really matters: a seat next to a bedazzled-by-us Oprah. So who cares if our kindergartner sends hand-knitted socks to the troops or our husbands do all the housework.

And the motivation that has driven every person who can type to write a book, launch a website and wax philosophical on Twitter, will be lost. (As we sit here, new mommy bloggers racing to beat the end of Oprah Calendar may alone cause the internet to blow.)

When that dreaded day arrives, we might just stop writing, and probably stop bathing — or even bothering to have children. What’s the point if no accomplishment, no matter how remarkable, can ever get the ultimate level of recognition it so richly deserves?

In the fall of 2011, it’s ‘As you were!’ for everybody. We can go back to living normal, average, unremarkable lives. What a relief.