Survival can be reducible to the maintenance of competency in a number of spheres required to maintain an energetic and environmental equilibrium in one's given mode of living. In a wilderness survival story this process is easy enough to understand, but it also applies powerfully in the modern built environment as well. One must maintain good hygiene, nutrition, manner of speaking, technological competency, critical professional and civil relationships, and all the rest to maintain one's place in a given economic class and regional placement. This is all a lot of work, and powerfully determines one's thoughts and longer term climate of personal and spiritual experience.
