Key to human survival

Lately during my boring weekday workdays I have been spending sometime actually watching tv. All that I have been seeing is constant documentaries  about how the world is going to end and pretty much all this 2012 stuff. It seems interesting and so I continued to watch it, but it wasn't until half way into the documentary did I realize the most obvious thing; these people over exagerate too much.

Now please understand me from my perspective as once living as a poor young boy in a poor nation. Where people who are born poor tend to always die poor. I came from a really ragged edge background and have lived a really rogh life despite it not feeling so. In one documentary it had mentioned that there will be a huge black out across the world. Saying that many would die and be devastated...my first thought was "I already went through that and I'm still alive" Heck 45% of the people are still alive without the dependancy of electricity (the other55% have electricity not dead). And people who live north of here would surely die without the dependancy of electricity in powering heaters. May I say again I have went through this  *cough* firewood  *cough*  blankets and more blankets. In fact eskemos live this type of lifestyle through out thier entire lifetime and I'm sure there is a good number of them alive. And then the third argument that without electricity there would be a problem with food.  *sigh*  All I can say is "farmers", they grow thier food, they raise lifestock,  and if you were to ask them "if they wanted to go shopping at walmart?" they would most likely repond saying "What type of walls do they sell? Dry walls? wooden?" If the planet were to experience a major black out, we already possess the ability to replace it esp seeing as we have many alternative power supplies such as: solar power, wind power, thermal power, even steam powered (for old school).




Main point is that we can survive without electricty and many other things. We would eventually learn to adapt and survive without the dependancy of such things.  The less materialistic you are the better chances of survival, the less of a dependancy you have towards anything the more you should know in surviving. Me and my family we are survival of what these people call "devastating events" we have made it from the thin walls of chilly freezy nights, we have faced a lack of food supply for common weeks, we have lived months without electricity but yet we live and better understand what really matters in life. And in a way I guess I could thank my mom for showing me all of that, for showing me where I came from and that everything doesn't really matter. Most of all she has proved to be the greatest survivor I have ever known in changing my life at the face of death and bringing us a future that will bring hope in not dying poor but happy. Also I know how the world is going to end, our sunday school has been studying it the last 7 weeks. So I really have nothing to worry about if the end times come, not only do I know what will happen but that knowledge will not really matter once it does occur because most likely  I will not be here. Most importantly God is always in control of everything. I have nothing to fear

So in closing the key to human survival is to not be strongly dependant on  anything and to constantly see lifes greatest obstacles as a bumpy trip.