choices

Making choices for tshtf is difficult for those of us who question everything. Trust is a hard issue when you realize what is at stake. It has been made even more complicated by the plethora of information available. Gun, no gun, what knife, how many, what kind? The answers can only come when society as we know it has ceased to function, then the choices we have made will show our wisdom, or foolishness. Whenever I prepare, I try to imagine that there are no grocery stores to buy from, no internet to order from and only what I have in hand to live on. This leads me to beleive simplest is best. Less to go wrong, less to do without. What if myself, my wife, or son in law had a deep cut across the arm, or abdomen, and there are no hospitals around, what would we need to survive. Remember the "Band Aid" tins? In one of these I keep a needle and thread I have soaked in alcohol, sterile bandages, alcohol in a small bottle, and tweezers. This would by no means be the best option, but in a dire emergency would save a life.
Balancing neccessary with available space and weight is my biggest concern. Have I overpacked on food? have I underpacked? What kind? As a younger man I have done my share of camping in wilderness areas, but this is not an accurate barometer because I always knew I would be coming back in a week or so. I have never experienced the eow and so how to prepare?
It may be enough that I do prepare, do take steps to survive in a post apocolyptic world, even if the choices I make now are not optimal, it is the attitude of survival that drives me forward, pushes me not to be complacent, but to try to survive what I always knew would come. Like many of us, have felt the end of all things in some back room of our psyche, and so must prepare.
The beleif that all things will soon end is controversial, yet one thing is clear, we live in a society constantly on the edge of financial ruin, even if our social structure remains intact, even if the end never comes, it is a wise man that is prepared for an uncertain future.
Tomorrows survival is todays choice.