The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.
I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear I like my toast done on one side.
I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
Nothing in your life is beyond redemption.
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.