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ebonypearl at 10:01pm on 11/04/2009Learn, lose, love
Learn something you can use to provide for yourself or others: sewing, brewing, gardening, raising bees or chickens, or something similar. Learn it well enough to have others willing to barter for it, well enough to survive off it. This is something I've spoken about before, many times before. This whole blog is filled with tips, hints, and instructions on how to do a great many things. You don't have to be able to do everything yourself; just something others will want enough to trade something they do that you might want.
Lose something you may think you need, but is really only something a modern industrial lifestyle seems to demand, a “keeping up with the Joneses sort of thing, or a constant seeking to upgrade to newer, bigger, more expensive. From recycling, repairing, re-using, keeping the old for its entire lifetime (did you know the average car is generally good for 20 -25years instead of 3?), or eliminating it from your life entirely. Whether it's keeping your car longer, moving to a smaller home, finding work closer to home, or something else that takes up an excessive amount of your time,money,effort, or resources.
Love something well enough to save it. That which survived through the Dark Ages were the things people cared enough to save – cultural traditions, literature, music, philosophical thoughts, science, and technology. Think of your own passions and ways you could ensure they are saved for future generations. Some things will survive because a lot of people will work to save it and pass it on to their children and other descendants – brewing comes to mind. Other things are less common – ham radio, the internet, electricity, modern health care. What do you want to save, and what steps will you take to make sure it will still exist 100 years from now, or 200?
Three things. Just three small things you could do at any time to prepare not just for your personal future, but for a distant future as well. So, think about it. What do you want to learn, lose or love for that future?