And then the meditation neared its completion. “Wow! What is that?” I crouched down on the table and found an adorable bug walking towards me on the table. This cute thing might as well have been a giant because the thing seemed so alive despite being very small in reality.
It starts with my mom who is 78 years old fighting a collapsed lung and blood poisoning. I realized that she is a survivor. No tools, no tent, no disaster to be navigated. No, she is just fighting to survive. She is using the thing that still works very well, and the thing she has not lost, her mind.
When I was a young girl, maybe four or five years old, I remember the day the “outdoor ended up in the backyard.” I remember running to the backyard because two critters had escaped their murky outdoor environment in order to join the beautifully clear, blue one.
Re-prioritizing beauty
“Lets go! Grab everything you need!”
This is a statement my husband shouted at me while trying to usher me out the door for our afternoon hiking trip. Well, you might wonder what a survivalist like myself grabbed. What is in my grab and go pack? Surely someone like myself has a sophisticated bug out bag. Well, while I do have a really awesome bug out bag and 72 hour kit, I grabbed what I thought were “the essentials” and got in the car. We drove to the mouth of the canyon and got out.
Living without, while living a new survival perspective
When someone says survival, it means so many things. To some, it means off the grid living, this is the type of living that is desired by many people and inspires a sort of connection to an older and simpler way of doing things. This type of living checks your dependency on the current way of life.
One thing that is required if you’re going to be a survivalist is that being prepared should be second nature to you. It might take awhile but it’s one of the ultimate goals to be a survivalist if you love life and want to keep yours. So if you can prepare for the essentials and work your way down the list then you have an advantage over a lot of other people.
Can you have best of both worlds. Be a tech savvy guru with all the gizmo’s and gadgets and yet become Butch Cassidy when the apocalypse comes. I mean it could happen and personally I wouldn’t want my derriere left behind because I sat at home all day playing nintendo games.
Growing up in Southern Virginia it was (and still is) a common practice to carry a pocket knife. Over the years, styles of the knife have changed but the custom remains the same. My grandfather’s employer gave him an engraved Case Stockman with a bone handle that he carried with him at all times. My Father also has a Stockman that he carries with him. Although I don’t always have one in my pocket, I am usually not too far away from one. However, I do find myself needing to use a knife on a regular basis, whether it is for opening a package, a letter, or cutting something.
It was time to do some spring cleaning out in our garage the other day. I had made some pretty good progress when everything came to a grinding halt. I had stumbled across a box of useless papers and junk from my childhood; my first homemade survival kit! While there are some that would just toss the stuff in the trash, I happen to be a little more sentimental and began to examine every item with meticulous detail.
What to do if you are not a survivalist and have been told to “be prepared” by everyone you know.
The survivalist lifestyle is not completely how I define myself. Let me give a bit of information on some personal preferences in how I live my life. First, I have defined camping for the last couple of years as motel 6. My dried food comes from Starbucks and should only be consumed when desperate for food. How did I respond to people asking me what I would do when the big one hit? Well, I figured I would cross that bridge at some point but not in my immediate future. I was just too busy doing this life thing. Technology is just so easy and I have been lulled into a sense of peace as everything clicks away as it should.
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