"prepping" without panic
Like anything else, my ideas around preparing for the inevitable and the possible continue to evolve. What doesn’t really change is the unknowing around how things may play out. Depending on who you listen to, it may be a pandemic that takes us all out. Maybe it’s the collapse of supply chains (for good this time) or the one of many uncertainties playing out in the geopolitical arena. Perhaps it will be something as dramatic as war or something as unpredictable as weather catastrophes. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter as far as building some safeguards around your home and family.
I think “prepping” is seen as a radical, right wing lunacy by some. Best to be avoided at all costs. I don’t get that. Why wouldn’t everyone want to take steps during relative calm to ensure that should there be a disruption anywhere along their many lines of dependencies, they’d be okay? On the other hand, there are people who are so busy “prepping” for the assured demise of us all that they don’t even live in today. Their whole lives are geared to looming destruction. I like to think there’s a reasonable in-between.
Nobody knows the future, but we can sniff about and get a decent idea around where this ship is being steered. Covid gave us some good clues on how heavy-handed a government (like ours in Canada) can be during whatever they deem to be an “emergency”. Globalists tout the importance of digital currencies and radical environmental agendas to lasso us into their “net zero” aspirations. All manner of shenanigans are taking place.
It’s worth asking ourselves if we really believe that what’s here today will always be here. If you’re not sure of that answer or think the answer is anything other than “of course not”, delving into some history will assuage you of any of those notions of security. That’s not meant to cause fear. It doesn’t cause me fear. It’s emboldening to act in care for our future selves. Just as we eat well and move and take care of our budgets and our tasks today as a point of care for who we will be tomorrow, we should also prepare for those contingencies that we have little control over. Our control is in preparing now in order to ensure some degree of security in the future.
In our home, we see planning for contingencies as a positive, hopeful thing. Just as we fill our freezers and root cellar with a year’s worth of food in the autumnal harvest, we