John Y’s Musings from the Middle: What If?

Sometimes what seems to be a confident answer turns into a cause for worry.

Last week I was asked by a client, “Is there any way in the world –anything that could possibly happen—that means this deal won’t go through?

I flippantly joked, “Yes. If the Mayans were off three weeks in their prediction of the end of the world.”

We both laughed.

But since then I keep worrying, “What “IF” the Mayans really were off three weeks?! And the world does end. And this deal doesn’t go through. I am totally sc***d. I will have lost my credibility with this firm and probably not get renewed for this year.

Gosh, I sure hope the Mayans didn’t have a tendency to be off 3 weeks in their predictions.

I mean, the Mayan culture seems like the kind of culture that if they were going to get something wrong, they would at least get it wrong on the right date. They seemed to be sticklers like that.