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I'm scared. I'm scared that the world is coming to an end. I'm scared that I should be learning those survival skills I'll need in a post-apocolyptic world. I feel like I should be learning how to keep my children from freezing to death when we have no electricity, how to make food out of native plants, how to hide ourselves so that dangerous, predatory people don't find us, the quickest way into the most remote area near us. I know I'm being paranoid, but somehow I can't shake the feeling that the world is spiraling out of control and I'm its poster child, in-debt, ignorant, and living too near a city.
I love my new job, but it is in the middle of the city and serves an industry that, lets face it, is going down with petroleum. Will we be able to adapt? Will we find a new niche? Will I be a part of it or cast off with all of the other extraneous people?
Will I be able to afford more children if I want them? Will those children be able to afford college? Will it be a moot point in a world that has no need for educated people, just mindless $4 an hour customer service reps in Guatemala?
I'm trying to remember a documentary I saw about surviving in the Grand Canyon with nothing...the guy said something about boiling pine needles for Vitamin C to ward off scurvy. Are acorns edible? How do you scare off a cayote?
I love my new job, but it is in the middle of the city and serves an industry that, lets face it, is going down with petroleum. Will we be able to adapt? Will we find a new niche? Will I be a part of it or cast off with all of the other extraneous people?
Will I be able to afford more children if I want them? Will those children be able to afford college? Will it be a moot point in a world that has no need for educated people, just mindless $4 an hour customer service reps in Guatemala?
I'm trying to remember a documentary I saw about surviving in the Grand Canyon with nothing...the guy said something about boiling pine needles for Vitamin C to ward off scurvy. Are acorns edible? How do you scare off a cayote?