Another two weeks travel past

There are some people in my life that inspire me to tackle life in a different way, but I don't seem able to change how I am to be able to do so. Where they are facing the ultimate of challenges, they are just working on at keeping on, and speaking positively in the way they travel through life. One is going to try to keep working, but with a back up plan, and the other is not working but keeping on living to the full, travelling and visiting family, and heading out for outings.
I just do not have the nature to be so positive in the face of difficulties, to the annoyance of my husband, who finds my pessimism annoying. Interestingly a study that looked at the long term survival rates of cancer subjects this year, showed that positive thinking did not increase the rate of survival. It seems to have more to do with your body and how it responds to the treatments and how it fights.
Which leads me to today, the end of the world number 3560000000000000?  How many times and in how many communities before our global connection has the end of the world been declared to be coming on a set day? If the bible is to be believed watch out not on the day of prediction but around it. Why is that, because the bible tells us that only the Father knows the time of the end, and man won't. So these big predicitions make we wonder about the people who go into doomsday mode, do they think they can survive the end of the world? If it is the end of the world, then no one will survive.
Nuclear disaster is a different thing when it strikes there is a chance that people can survive the armageddon, and live a life afterwards, but I wonder what kind of life that would be.

Unexpected visits

This has been a week that included a visit to a property that has such a beautiful garden that has grown in six years to be full of healthy plants.
During the week I had the pleasure of watching my son in a bit part in a  musical, a speaking part in amongst the singing parts. He was surprisingly serious in his role, and made sure that he did not look at mum and dad in the front row seat. We enjoyed the musical and were amazed at the quality of the production. It is an amateur theatre group, but you would say that they had a production that would be up to the standard of some professional groups.
While there friends invited us to a family barbecue that was happening on Sunday to celebrate their son's marriage. He had married in Japan, and some had not been able to travel there. We went to a place we had never been before, and the joy of having had rain recently meant that the surrounding country was still green. Very beautiful spot just outside Ballarat, I think with five acres of land, and with the garden I spoke of.
One of the other joys was seeing sheep in the paddock beside the home. Shorn sheep, with a few lambs interspersed. I did not go on the walk to see the cows, but stayed for the wedding photos. They were beautiful. What a wonderful experience the family had.
My reading is not happening, I am distracting myself from the books I need to read. Must get to and do some reading.