Which is why I'm going for it while I still have the chance. Because if there's one thing I learned about survival, it's not to get caught off-guard. I figure it's like Sir Robert said, a guy's gotta BE PREPARED. Besides that, I like practicing all this wilderness stuff. Heck-- do you know how many real kid heroes there were down through history? Google it sometime, and you'll be up all night without getting to the end. They were prepared to do what they had to -- and they did it.I would really like to be like that. Go down in history, I mean. But the more I read up on it and try to figure out how those kids got to be that way, the more I keep bumping into things I can see -- right now -- I gotta change about myself. They just pop up. Then I gotta decide. Am I gonna change? Or am I gonna stay the same? The thing is, I only started having to make these decisions since I got elected Captain of our patrol. Because sometimes a leader has to decide on what's best for the whole group instead of just himself. Like sharing what's in my backpack with everybody.
But here's the deal. I like being the only one who knows a few certain things. I like how the others think I'm way cool when I know something they don't. Only now I have this feeling I shouldn't be stingy with the cool stuff. I mean, what if some disaster happened and we all got separated before I got a chance to tell them everything I know about how to survive?
All of a sudden I'm thinking that's more important than cool. But it isn't easy. On account of I worked way hard to learn all this stuff, and they'd get it for nothing. So, what should I do? Anybody has any ideas out there, let me know. Because, it's not easy being great.
Seriously.
W.K.
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