shibumiseeker
Grandmaster
Walter:
Here's a big secret: Throughout human there has ALWAYS been a reason to fear imminent danger or collapse. Yeah, sometimes it has happened, and there are points in history we can point to, but the real truth is that 99% or more of human beings out there live their lives without anything majorly bad happening in their society that directly affects their survival. However 100% of them have something bad happen on a smaller scale to them individually or their immediate families in their lifetimes. For every person murdered by genocide in Rwanda or caught in murderous civil war or starve to death in famine, there are tens of thousands that never have their morning breakfasts disturbed by anything more than a newspaper account of it.
Part of your life should be preparing for bad things to happen but as many of us say, you cannot possibly prepare for every possible thing, and at some point folks need to stop frantically trying to and simply get out there and enjoy life. Prepping for survival should be a part of your life, not its master.
Finally:
SHTF on INGO I've noticed since June 2010:
2 Emergency surgery
1 Divorce
5 Serious car accidents no serious injury but car totaled
2 Serious car accidents- injury requiring hospital
1 Serious at fault car crash, 5 serious injuries, inadequate insurance
8 Lost jobs/no new job ready to go
6 Family deaths
5 children born
2 significant flooding events
2 computer crashes with total loss of data/no backup
1 major house fire-displaced occupants months later
Note there have been no zombie apocalypse or major social collapse in that time, but these are just little figures I've been noting as I see them, and I may have missed a few. I don't think I missed a ZA o major social collapse. Each one of those little SHTF or other events were life changing events for the folks involved.
Just something to think about when you prep and think about it.
Here's a big secret: Throughout human there has ALWAYS been a reason to fear imminent danger or collapse. Yeah, sometimes it has happened, and there are points in history we can point to, but the real truth is that 99% or more of human beings out there live their lives without anything majorly bad happening in their society that directly affects their survival. However 100% of them have something bad happen on a smaller scale to them individually or their immediate families in their lifetimes. For every person murdered by genocide in Rwanda or caught in murderous civil war or starve to death in famine, there are tens of thousands that never have their morning breakfasts disturbed by anything more than a newspaper account of it.
Part of your life should be preparing for bad things to happen but as many of us say, you cannot possibly prepare for every possible thing, and at some point folks need to stop frantically trying to and simply get out there and enjoy life. Prepping for survival should be a part of your life, not its master.
Finally:
SHTF on INGO I've noticed since June 2010:
2 Emergency surgery
1 Divorce
5 Serious car accidents no serious injury but car totaled
2 Serious car accidents- injury requiring hospital
1 Serious at fault car crash, 5 serious injuries, inadequate insurance
8 Lost jobs/no new job ready to go
6 Family deaths
5 children born
2 significant flooding events
2 computer crashes with total loss of data/no backup
1 major house fire-displaced occupants months later
Note there have been no zombie apocalypse or major social collapse in that time, but these are just little figures I've been noting as I see them, and I may have missed a few. I don't think I missed a ZA o major social collapse. Each one of those little SHTF or other events were life changing events for the folks involved.
Just something to think about when you prep and think about it.