If you are not a survivor you won't survive. Why?

Because life is never what you expect it's going to be.

I had a lot of trouble with my life plans not going as I expected in my early 20s. I was despondent to the point of suicide then from around 21 to 25. However, with the birth of my first child all this changed and I had to get over myself to think about others like my child and my wife. This was good for me to "get over myself" and to think about others rather than just being another selfish man the way many men stay their whole lives.

By thinking about others you also have to survive yourself and since my genetics have been family men for generations all the way back to Switzerland in 1580 I could see why genetically I'm they way I am in that I don't care about my own survival unless I'm taking care of others.

Some people call this "Terminal Macho" but if you are a family man like me your terminal macho is tempered by the need to stay alive to take care of others.

So, even though I was riding motorcycles, Rock Climbing, Climbing mountains, flying hang gliders, flying planes that were gliders, Flying Planes, driving my 1968 camaro 145 miles per hour I also was moving towards becoming a father and husband and business owner.

I remember saying to my buddies when I was 25: "Maybe I will just have a long series of girlfriends the rest of my life?" Then next year my girlfriend was pregnant and we got married.

It's funny to think back upon how things went in my 20s now. But then, it all was almost too serious to survive at the time.

But, thinking about others and taking care of them caused me to take care of myself so I could take care of others. 

This worked for me like it has generations before me. When I traced my father's family back to 1580 the men in my lineage had around 5 to 10 kids each from 1580 in Switzerland to my father's family that also had 5 kids, then I and my cousins had 3 kids each or less.

Changing times with 8 billion people on earth now.