[KittenClaws]

I think it is the noise I will miss the most. I hate noise, I long for silence. What is the word “ironic”? The sound of power as it streams along the lines, the TV news in the morning, Mark Levin streaming. . .

No, it’s my bed I shall miss the most. Not the mattress that forms to my body, though that is nice, but the peace I feel that allows me to sleep. What if that peace was gone?

I am prepared for the possibilities, not for the realities. The discomfort of a storm passes...eventually, but social upheaval?

[Marcella]

“The discomfort of a storm passes...eventually, but social upheaval?”

You have moved from the mechanics of a breakdown to the societal breakdown that occurs after the mechanical breakdown.

If society breaks down, location matters and I don’t mean head for the woods and camp under the moon. Your situation is not like others, not like mine, so no one plan works for everyone. The main thing is have a plan that works for you to be as safe as possible from the Zombies. Once you have done that and I’m sure you have as I have, then we have to live life with faith in God that all will be well with us. Worry only makes us “tired”, not happy.

[bgill]

I won't miss the noise. I often think of growing up in the country when you could hear the birds, locust, cattle and the wind blowing through the brush. Sounds travel far. Sometimes you could hear a tractor on a neighbor's farm or a truck on the road a mile away. I would sit out on the porch and just listen. There was vastness to the quiet. At night, if the wind was just right, I could hear the football game miles away in town.

From a prepper's view, the quiet will give you a heads up on people getting too close to your property. That is until they learn about the quiet.

Places you live in get smaller, you work longer and get paid less. You eat cheaper lower quality stuff and have less time for other things. You expect less and less from things around you. Quality of things get lower. You cant expect to have secure job or secure anything. You get used to live with worry.

Some of us are seeing this already.