How Useless Are you?
A television writer realizes just how unimportant she would be in a post apocalyptic society. Being a writer, she has to made a video blog of her efforts to be more valuable. This includes being in better shape, learning to grow food and basic first aid skills.
What is amusing to me is that ever since I read 'The Stand' back in the 10th grade, this sort of crap worries me all of the time. My knowledge of DC comics history will not be of use when we need to build fences to keep out zombies. My knowledge of how to make an outer tie rod doesn't seem that important when I do not know how to hotwire a car. I find myself watching disaster movies and being envious that I have never designed a cruise liner and therefore know how to survive if one flips over.
What I can affect is my overall fitness. Don't tell anybody, but the number one motivator for me to workout is not to be more attractive or to avoid heart disease; it is when I saw a horror movie and the hero has to go back for the fat man who is out of breath. Holy crap. I do not want to be the guy in the back of the group being munched on by Aliens. I want to be muscular dude in the front who has the option of fighting nasty creatures if he is in a pissy mode. That's the guy I want to be. 'Picth Black' has motivated me to workout a lot more than Reality Fat farm shows ever have.
Excuse me while I go workout now.
What is amusing to me is that ever since I read 'The Stand' back in the 10th grade, this sort of crap worries me all of the time. My knowledge of DC comics history will not be of use when we need to build fences to keep out zombies. My knowledge of how to make an outer tie rod doesn't seem that important when I do not know how to hotwire a car. I find myself watching disaster movies and being envious that I have never designed a cruise liner and therefore know how to survive if one flips over.
What I can affect is my overall fitness. Don't tell anybody, but the number one motivator for me to workout is not to be more attractive or to avoid heart disease; it is when I saw a horror movie and the hero has to go back for the fat man who is out of breath. Holy crap. I do not want to be the guy in the back of the group being munched on by Aliens. I want to be muscular dude in the front who has the option of fighting nasty creatures if he is in a pissy mode. That's the guy I want to be. 'Picth Black' has motivated me to workout a lot more than Reality Fat farm shows ever have.
Excuse me while I go workout now.