Survivalists and Preppers
Due to Our Self Reliance and Independence
Are Often Set Apart From the Mainstream Populace
Many Others Have Shared The Experience and Pain
Their Feelings and Struggles Are Found
In Many Poems, Tails, Songs and Stories
Reading the words of others expressing similar feelings and thoughts helps us cope with struggles. When you read the words of an author who lived centuries before when you read the words of the North Central you struggling with the challenges of self-reliance it gives you a sense of balance and perspective.
Reading the poem, "Men that don't fit in" by Robert W Service brings home the differences and challenges inherent to the plight of a survivalist. Robert W Service was a rugged outdoorsman who loved the wilderness, self-reliant, homesteader, survivalist life. In the poem he captures the essence of the difference between wilderness adventurers and urban dwellers.
Lord Byron; still an influential poet wrote the poem darkness in 1816 at the height of the year that was known as "the year without summer". It is nearly a historical record of the death, suffering, famine and climate change caused largely by the seven-month of eruptions culminated with the Mt. Tambora volcanic eruption. The ash fallout from that eruption killed millions across Europe, England and even had significant impact on crops and livestock in the USA over three years after.(See survival threats, natural disasters volcanic eruption Mt. Tambora)