OK so another thread got my autistic brain fizzing a bit, a word set it off..... You know, the way that lots of people use the same word, but the context indicates that they don't necessarily mean the same thing....
Todays fizzy word is "survival."
Could be a lot of things - and could change from where ever one is on life journey.
If one is looking at it from a skills perspective - maybe one is studying bushcraft and wilderness skills for reasons that one wants to learn those skills to know and reassure yourself you could fare better if in the highly improbable case you're forced to survive from what you know and can do if thrust into an improbable scenario where you need those skills as a civilian.
If you were doing the same learning but as a Military pilot - it would have more relevance , more likelihood ( still slim ) and would be learning for a purpose of E&E /SERE type scenarios
So both of those learnings phases would be to provide one with a higher level of knowledge and reassurance that one is well prepared IF that situation ever comes to pass.
Or maybe one is learning those skills simply for the pleasure of learning and self discovery - , no implied self pressure , just learning for learnings sake - its the same skills set but more as a hobby of learning -- How did my ancestors survive? can I replicate it ? Yes I can. Fulfillment.
These skills I tend to think of as Primary - Primitive - the needs to cover off Food/Water/Fire/Shelter with very little - learning to source and find things from the natural world and use/apply them. Limited equipment / limited access to anything from our present time.
Some of the scenarios definitely feel/read ( at least to me ) as more concern over a possible future event so seem to put it into a more prepper perspective of survival - which can be more focused on some of the more improbable worse possible futures and how one is going to take action against that.
Learning some skills that are more Tertiary based - so that would be looking to learn skills to effect survival -more longer term - if the current status quo of existence is upset or interrupted or possibly comes to an end.
A more dystopian view creating a need to learn to be more removed and connected to the current grid of society..
Again some may do this study and skill learning just for the 'fun' of learning whilst others may make the move to be more off grid and self sufficient in the here-and-now - and there is nothing wrong with that if it improves ones quality of life and happiness.
I guess there could be a question of a Survivalist ( if such a term is still relevant ) wanting to cover all bases -from the Primary skills to the Tertiary . A bushcrafter maybe drawn more to the Primary aspects and the Prepper to the more Tertiary elements and concerns.
More likely survival could be , coping with hardship in the here and now - whatever that looks like?
Bad relationship / Violent relationship
Medical diagnosis and treatment - going from week to week , day to day, hour to hour
Homelessness -living hand to mouth with little light ahead in terms of hope.
Dark thoughts - surviving in our own heads when we have to much internal negative chatter making us think of and dwell on permanent solutions for what will be temporary situations.
