Which Type Of Person Are You: Service To Self, Or Service To Other

Do Preps Matter?

Suppose that you have a basement, garage, or pole building full of supplies that you have responsibly accumulated to get you and your family through just about any emergency.

Now suppose that some emergency has befallen the US, and suddenly the electric grid is down, and there is no power.  Stores, including super markets, are closed.  Natural gas and water and sewers fail over the next week.  Looting empties out the stores, and hungry scavengers mill about, looking for a meal.  Soon, your neighbors are at the door.

As you face your hungry neighbors, you must now decide:

Are you a Service To Other or a Service To Self kind of person?

In that moment, you lower your gun, and become a Service To Other person.  You welcome your neighbors in, and feed them, giving them some of your provisions to keep them fed for the next week, or so.  

Over the next week, other folks in your neighborhood stop by, as word gets around.  You have planned preps for your own family, not for the entire neighborhood.  The crowd outside your door grows over the next week, until you have a mob of 20, 40, and finally 60 people demanding to share your preps.  Soon, your preps are all gone, and you are standing admidst the wreckage in your house, wondering whether you can repair the door, now ripped off its hinges.  Wondering where it all went so wrong.

Rewind to the first time your neighbors knock on your door.

In that moment, you make the decision to be Service To Self.

You raise your gun, and send the neighbors running for their lives.

Over the next week, as word gets around that you have preps, which you aren't willing to share, the hungry mob milling around in the street in front of your house grows from 20, to 40, and finally 60 people demanding to share your preps.  Soon, rocks are breaking your windows, and gunshots are coming through the walls.  In spite of your guns, and your willingness to use them, after a sleepless week, you crawl wounded (if you are lucky) across the floor of your trashed house, all preps looted, your arms and gold taken, wondering if you can repair your front door, now ripped off its hinges.  Wondering where it all went so wrong.

Now, consider which orientation is the best one to be:  Service To Other, or Service To Self.  Both end up the same way.  So, you may as well be a Service To Other type of person.  Sure, lay in enough food to get you through a week or two without power or opened supermarkets.  But then, enjoy the day, your family and friends, and enjoy your life.  You have done all you can.  Best of all, you have become the best person you can be.  

But, realize that after a month or so, one way or another, we are all going to ge in the same boat anyway.  So, you might as well invite the neighbors in, and throw some steaks on the grill.  Enjoy the day, and let tomorrow take care of tomorrow.

In the end, neither mindset works.  Service To Self, survivalism, and preparedness doesn't work any better than a Service To Others mindset.  Either way, you end up with nothing at all, and,sadly, join the rest of the scavengers, prowling the neighborhoods, looking for something, anything, to eat.