What is Survival

Surviving The Equatorial Rainforest of Malaysia - for the Ordinary People.

Survival – What is Survival?

Survival – to continuously live! To stay alive!

Action is: You make efforts or attempts to go on living. To survive, to be able to stay alive while you make attempts to get to civilization.You attempt to get out of a predicament or situation of being in an unknown area, where you do not know where to go, where you are, where is civilization

Surviving with some equipment. 2 pieces of 7eleven disposable pochos as a shelter may seem comfortable when in a tight situation.

When we mention the word SURVIVAL, the first thing that comes to most minds are those TV shows about someone lost in the jungle, making fire by rubbing two pieces of

wood or rocks, making shelters out of leaves, wooden branches , drinking from bodies of water and eating raw meat or tree grubs.  So if you can do that, the TV shows says you will survive! Well okay, now that suddenly makes you a survival expert!

Well, they may be right! When you are in a survival situation, you will need to do anything that might get you out of that situation in one piece and alive. The WILL to Survive might make you do the unthinkable, do something that you never thought you might do or can’t do.

But there is more to it!  Yes, survival is all about getting out of a situation alive, but doing the wrong thing, might not see you come out alive, and worst of all, you may never be found.

Rubbing the wrong kind of wood or rocks together will never get the ember or spark you need. Drinking contaminated water might get you sick or even kill you.  Building a shelter in the wrong place might get you in more trouble than you are already in. Going into the wrong cave might never see you come out.

You will need the right mindset, the right knowledge, the right skills and lots of practice. You will need to be able to identify the resources around you and be able to use them, and that still does not guarantee that you will make it out alive. It’s easier seen on TV than to actually do it.

In other words, you will need to horn your skills. And the most important thing after you have developed a good survival mindset, your knowledge, you need to PRACTICE, PRACTICE AND PRACTICE! The skills you need to acquire should be second nature to you. You should be able to use your survival tools as efficiently as you are spreading butter on a piece of toast.

What I am trying to do here, is to come up with a simple guide for Basic Simple Survival for those simple people, people who cannot afford survival classes, people who do not have the strength to rub two pieces of bamboos in creating Primitive Friction Fire, who cannot afford to lose time in making cordage out of the natural offerings, and who do not have the time and capability to make shelters out of wood, or bamboo and leaves. If you are one of them, read on!