LOST doesn’t mean Lost for Good. For all of our frailty, all of our short comings, human beings can survive against tremendous odds. Though many believe that wilderness highlights human weakness, once again a survival story, this time of a missing Colorado woman reminds us just how resilient we can be.

I know it sounds impossible, even highly unlikely but we can survive without food, custom shelter and excess water in some pretty wild situations and for a decent amount of time.

I still believe survival is a mindset, a train of thought void of panic and feebleness. Today, we are conditioned to believe that survival is dependent on a backpack full of gear and a mind full of learned skills, to successfully survive. It’s more about temperament than technology, more mental than mechanical. What we need, thank goodness, we already possess. It’s in us.

You and I are a product of thousands of years of walking out into the wild, Eden or Africa, and making our way to the end of the day. Humans, if nothing else, are survivors.

Survivors First. Consumers, a distant second.

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