It's amazing how helpless so many people are, these days. I feel very fortunate to have grown up with parents who were not afraid to do things. And who were always ready to learn something new.
I was never very close to my dad, but he gave me a gift that has served me well. That's the ability to find out how to do anything I set my mind to. I watched him learn all kinds of stuff through the years. If he got curious about something, he'd find a book and teach himself. If he couldn't find a book, or had any trouble with just a book, he'd start asking around until he found somebody who know how to do whatever it was at the time, and pay him to give him lessons.
My mom was a lot like that, too, so I had good role models as far as survival was concerned. Neither of them were fearful people, and neither am I. These days people are encouraged to be afraid of everything, food, dirt, animals, it's so weird to me. How on earth do they think the human race has survive this long, if we're as vulnerable as the media would have you think? Then, trying to avoid anything that might be bad, they eat all kinds of supposedly 'safe' food, that turns out to be full of crap that's killing them. Eat the poison, and be afraid of wholesome, natural food. Very sad. Very perplexing.
I was never very close to my dad, but he gave me a gift that has served me well. That's the ability to find out how to do anything I set my mind to. I watched him learn all kinds of stuff through the years. If he got curious about something, he'd find a book and teach himself. If he couldn't find a book, or had any trouble with just a book, he'd start asking around until he found somebody who know how to do whatever it was at the time, and pay him to give him lessons.
My mom was a lot like that, too, so I had good role models as far as survival was concerned. Neither of them were fearful people, and neither am I. These days people are encouraged to be afraid of everything, food, dirt, animals, it's so weird to me. How on earth do they think the human race has survive this long, if we're as vulnerable as the media would have you think? Then, trying to avoid anything that might be bad, they eat all kinds of supposedly 'safe' food, that turns out to be full of crap that's killing them. Eat the poison, and be afraid of wholesome, natural food. Very sad. Very perplexing.