My training and numbers are coming along, but I am in a haze right now regarding my surroundings. Just a little frustrated with the way we are becoming now a days. Self entitlement and all about money and image. Who cares about anything except what your wearing, what your driving and taking absolutely no responsibility for anything and demanding that the government should do everything for you. Honestly I am quite concerned with the well being of hundreds of people that live in this fantasy, with the mentality that natural disasters and food shortages only happen else where, or a word I am completely sick of the economy completely crashed. If you think about it how many people actually have water, flashlights, food ,blankets, alternative power sources to survive on stand by if needed. Better yet how many people would have the knowledge or ability to survive and take care of their families. Surviving would be easy, just go to your food bank right? Sure you and about a million people all demanding they get food now because their entitled to it and WE as in ME am hungry. How about the amount of skills that have been lost and the complete disconnection people have now with Internet and those little mobile computers that every one and their dog is completely entranced in called what used to be a phone. All that free information and complete effortless convenience. Now shut the power off across the board. What now? So many things and people rely on technology and all these great things , which really evolution is always a great thing, but I think it is massively abused and is washing away the creativity and the potency that people once had. If it is not mindless and effortless very few people want anything to do with it. That really saddens me. So I try to do the best I can to teach my family or anybody for that matter any life skill or manual ability's that my father and others have passed to me. At least I can say I tried and put somebody else first before myself and just knowing that it made a difference kind of balances I guess. I won't deny some I really don't want to help. I'd rather slap them silly, so I guess thats where the challenge of random acts of kindness comes in. Anyway thats enough of my random rants for now.
Brian Chervenka
I've had this conversation a few times with various people and yes, there is a false blanket of security. Like you we do our work and through that we have found other like minds and from that comes a community that stands together and has each others back. As for slapping silly, that can be an act of kindness, however, it has to come from the right source. :)
ReplyDeleteWow, good post. I couldn't agree more. I took a couple young fellers out climbing and camping last year and they were amazed that you can start a fire without paper. Once they were shown, you could see progress in their confidence for self reliance. Most people are willing to learn, but they've missed the opportunity. I guess it's our job to do what we can to teach them, and learn from those more prepared than us. Thanks for the post.
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