And honestly, that’s the reason why any of us preppers bother to prep in the first place.
If any one of us could hit “restart,” load a previous portion of our lives, and essentially redo whatever we wanted with the foresight of having lived through future events; we wouldn’t prep – because we wouldn’t need to.
Prepping is only important, or as I’d like to think, necessary, because we:
- Don’t know what might happen in the future.
- Can’t go back in time.
If we could do either of these things, we wouldn’t need to prep. We could just:
- Use our knowledge of the future to determine what would be best for us to do now; or
- Go back in time and change our previous behaviours based on what we have learned about what will happen.
So the next time you get asked why you’re a prepper, consider giving this response: If something terrible happens in the future, I want to be able to say I tried my best to prepare for it.
None of us can go back in time to fix the past. The best we can do is use the present to prepare for what may very well be an unfortunate and difficult future.
A friend’s 10 year old niece had a coloring book page with the following.
“Life always gives You a second chance. It’s called tomorrow”
I like that a lot :)
I hear you Todd. Coming from Sicily, my grandmother and grandfather had not only the old world values, but enough sense to try and teach their children and grandchildren the same lessons. They saw the Mussolini style facism first hand that we now get to enjoy. :)
The lessons learned skipped a generation with my mom though. She was a RINO and was of the school of thought that government would always save us, guns were bad, go to college and collect a pension.
As we are now seeing, my mom was wrong, Nana was right.
Always good to see families return to prepper values, even when they do skip a generation!
The advice,reviews and sire look excellent.Thank you.
Thanks! And thank you for stopping by! :) Hope to see you again!
You know, when i was growing up it was common for people to stock up even before the “prepper movement” was popular. Living in the country, you kinda have no choice but to plan ahead. You might get snowed in, or electric goes out for weeks etc. Even when i lived in the city, we always food/water set aside for a few months.
I’m just amazed that some folks only have 3 days of food on hand at any one time. Similar to what you said, it might take a disaster to change the minds of some people.
I’m amazed, too. I feel like I’d go insane if I only had 3 days worth of food at home. Forget the emergency preparedness aspect – what happens if you just don’t feel like you want to go to the grocery store that week? Three days catastrophic levels of low inventory.
Very nice info .good work .
Thanks, Frank!