Wimps and studs

What do you think of when you think survivor? The tracks star that always did things the hard way, and tried to impress everyone with their mad skills; or the wimps that always looked for the easier way to do things, and concentrated more on mind than muscle. It may come as a shock, but most survivors are what we consider wimps. If you try and do everything the "manly" way, then your going to basically kill yourself. A long term survival situation (long term meaning anything that would endure longer than say 30 minutes) is the time to slow down and think. Think smarter not harder. Take, for example, a hill. Your job is to get to the top. The side you are on is very steep, but your physical ability will allow you to run up it in about a minute. Around the back there is a trail you can practically walk up, but it will take ten minutes. The smarter move is to go around the back because you will save strength, however there is the downside of loosing time. It's a balance of time and energy. If you are going for long term, it is better to save your energy for later. 

There is an old phrase: He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day. 

This holds true, and I know it sounds like the cowards way out, and thats because it is. But if your goal is to stay alive, you can't be killed if your not there to be killed. There may be times when you have to stay and fight while others get away, but at that point, your goal is not to live, it is that others may live. Now, weather you stay or fight is up to you. No one has to stay behind and stop the aggressors from advancing, that's why those who do are called heroes. Heroes very often die because they ignored their basic instinct of survival and  went against their better judgement to save others.

Just some thoughts.

~Sheepdog