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What is self sufficiency and self sufficient living?

What is self sufficiency and can i learn to be self sufficient?

Is self sufficiency when you are able to grow your own food? Does being self sufficient mean you dont rely on others anymore? What benefits are there to self sufficiency? ok - the biggest question of all is what does self sufficiency mean to everyone?

Now, having spent a good morning and year thinking about how I can be more self sufficient whilst at the same time trying to teach the people around me about self sufficiency in the home or garden, it dawned on me that the so called 'real' world which we live and work and play in, is not the same as this 'self sufficient' world we aspire to be yet, even with that in hindsight you could say we just relentlessly take strolls in the matrix and then come back for a good evenings gossip on what happened in the matrix with our friends at the pub or bar.

Ok thats a generalisation but the point is - we live in a place where either a service is operated by a human behind a till or a waiting desk, or we rely on another person to bring us that nice cool beer or serve us food at a restaurant, we may even rely on the public transport driver to bring us to our destination (Shock gasp I do take public transport from time to time - but more on why i dont later). In our world - the current system of thought determines the outcome of our society, yet what we WANT clashes with what we have and what we want to do.... and what we'd like to do... all of this clashes with what we NEED to do.

Is it getting confusing yet? well hold on and stick with me - we're nearly there to the point. Some of you bright sparks would ask... so what do we want, what do we like and what do we need?

Firstly I'd like to point out self sufficiency is not a way of life, it is a way to become more knowledgeable in all the processes we need in our daily lives, from being able to 'put up' shelter, to providing food for ourselves, to making or using tools so that we can then move on to create bigger and more elaborate tools or devices which then save time and ultimately saves us money. Actually in fact it saves us time from 'finding money' to spending or creating new things with the money we have, in my case i've created my own vegetable and herb garden - which now is bearing fruit :). Check back to read this article - I will announce soon as its done.

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