So, prepping for those times when the washing machine needs fixing is called?
As I have been trying to point to, that is going to depend a very great deal on where you approach it FROM mentally.
If you approach it with no thought i.e. no reason (e.g. as a kid watching Dad do it) then it is just called Life.
If you approach it with curiosity it is called Fun or Learning.
If you approach it with lots of reasons and/or "shoulds" it is called Worrying.
As I have also been trying to point to..... preparation is in everything we do, it comes naturally when you look at things as they are, outside the tropics. Food stores and Winter go hand in hand.
But if the preparation is contaminated by Worry or Fear, then it becomes quite unnatural because we are carrying quite a heavy load of (mental) stuff we don't need. You will "should" all over yourself.
Also if we have those tendencies then it seems likely that in a situation they will come up those tendencies will arise and a lot of the preparation will go down the pan. They are better dealt with from the beginning by approaching it with the right mindset.
If you are prepping in order to calm your thinking down, then you have got it all the wrong way round,
because you will be entirely dependent on things outside you to maintain a calm state of mind and a clear head. You will have outsourced your state of mind to a set of preparations (kit, procedures, people, whatever).
Believing your preparations will give you peace of mind or "save" you isn't that different to believing faeries will save you. You will hit a situation you didn't expect/prepare for and your one asset will be the ability to think clearly. If you don't have that, you are done for.
That's why I think fear is a bad reason to start prepping. But it appears to me to be only one people use (which I may be mistaken about).
That said starting through fear is better than not starting, but the highest order of business would be getting your mind clear so that circumstances follow, not getting your circumstances clear in the hope that the mind follows. Though I do say priority. There is nothing to stop you working from both ends at once.
The bottom line is we all prepare, the difference between us is the extent to which we outsource that preparation to Supermarkets, Utility Companies etc and the extent to which we take responsibility for that choice to outsource or not.
I don't call that "being a Prepper" I call it "being an Adult" or "being a Human Being".
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.