I’m of the expectation that people want to care but I’m never surprised when I discover that very few people out there care about anything but themselves. I too find myself falling into that trap and to be honest, I find it harder and harder to get out of it lately. I fear that I’m turning into one of those people that I despise. People that let the door close on you, talk on their phones on line and in their cars at the green lights, people that are too busy to stop at lights and stop signs.. I could go on.
I think we need to move out to the country.
>>I too find myself falling into that trap and to be honest,<<
I’m having that problem to some degree and I use this analogy to clarify how I “feel”: In the movie “The Twelve Monkeys”, I am the Bruce Willis character in the “pre-collapse” world. I see everything around me as “about to end”. Anything I can pull from it to use to build up my farm in Kentucky, I will. It will just go unused here in Seattle as everything is destroyed by people as this thing goes down.
If you could go back in time and steal the money out of a person’s wallet just before the plane they are in crashes and burns, are you really stealing? Come to think of it, there was a movie and book about that.
>>I think we need to move out to the country.<<
We bought a farm in central Kentucky two weeks before Urkel was elected. We moved most of our stuff out there last year. We’re driving one of our cars out there this weekend stuffed with most of the rest of our stuff. If the interview goes well, we’ll drive the other car out in a few weeks. I’ve already listed and sold a lot on CL. The closer the date comes, the lower the price to get rid of it.
We’re also working on putting up a sheet metal building in the 2500 sq. ft. range to use as a tool. We can even move our kids out there to live when TSHTF, assuming they can get there.