One of my top goals is to become and teach my family and others to become self sufficient or maybe self reliant. I always get lost and can not choose if I want to say self sufficient or self reliant. During a planning session today trying to figure out yields and how many plants I need I found a man who says self reliance is impossible to reach and self sufficient is also an unobtainable goal. So with this I did some more researching thinking maybe I misunderstood what I was trying to say.
I went to http://www.merriam-webster.com to pull up some definitions.
Self sufficient 1. able to maintain oneself or itself without outside aid : capable of providing for one's own needs <a self–sufficientfarm> 2. having an extreme confidence in one's own ability or worth: haughty, overbearing
Self reliant confident in your own abilities and able to do things for yourself : not needing help from other people
So with those definitions I do believe a self reliant or a self sufficient life style is obtainable. I do not necessarily believe in a dooms day scenario but I do want to learn and teach the skills that are going by the waste side because I do believe Americans need them. Being able to grow all your own vegetables, preserve and cook food, repair and make things is what has made the world turn for thousands of years and I do not want my children to not learn these things. And I do believe if you learn how to do these things you will be confident in your own abilities and able to do things for yourself. And if there was ever an emergency you would not need help from other people to survive. Hmm that's the definition of self reliant and go figure they are self reliant and self sufficient are synonyms!
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