WHAT MADE YOU TAKE WSHTF SERIOUSLY?

[Scythe13]

Mine was a slow awakening.

I have been into survival skills since I was a kid. But I never got the opportunity to practice any of them until I was 21 and lived on a desert island for 5 weeks. I used to want to be in the SAS, so I have studied loads of survival books, military manuals and things like that. I have a small militia style library at home (in Warrington) I was that obsessed. Also, the martial arts, ninja, samurai, and things like that all harboured a need for personal defense and weapons handling.

But it wasn't until the film "The Day After Tomorrow" that I thought, 'WOW, what if that happens?' So I started to prep my snowboarding/skiing equipment much more. Used to make sure I could sleep in an avalanche if it didn't crush me. But then that slowly faded away into useless equipment that I never used (thankfully).

Then after reading a friends book (Neil Strauss' Emergency) it got me thinking about a few things some of my parents spoke about. I've had a pampered upbringing, never wanting for anything, everything was provided, exotic holidays, the lot. I never really used the survival skills or went camping much, or anything like that. So when my parents rich friends started talking about personal safety, and what everyone calls "The Snap" the breaking of the social contract, that is when I really started listening.

I did lots of research into the most intelligent people and things like that. I looked into what they were doing outside of work. What they were preparing for. What they expected to happen. More research than was probably healthy. It seemed obvious to me, if the richest smartest people on earth were preparing or a massive catastrophy.......it's probably time some of the smartest.....lech people (that's us lot) started doing the same. So boom.....staright online. After a few failed forums, American nutters, or British secret inner circle society people, I finally found the correct forum, and here I am, still in it now.