WELCOME MARYBLONDGIRL!!!!
I am sure you will set your fears to rest once you hang around this group for a while 
I have faded away and haven't been to a meeting in 25 years. I was raised a JW from the time I was 3 years old and that was in the 1950's. The end was near then and continued to be imminent throughout the years until now and much has happened but still no end of world.
I didn't like being a JW and said to myself I would rather die than live a life as a JW so I left. but I still thought it might be the truth and was fearful everytime something big happened politically or things like 9/11. Thinking about all the JW teachings kind of faded but was still at the back of my mind until I found this site and the information provided by many well informed disillusioned exjws.
All the information and support you will ever need you will find here. I can finally say I am free from fear of the JW's teachings.
Yes the world is in a mess, and maybe something is going to happen but it won't be anything to do with JW's teachings. I have stopped worrying about it because there is nothing we can do and we don't have to be a member of the Watchtower Society to gain salvation.