Boy Scouts taught me to "Be Prepared." I find this excellent advice. Naturally, you can't prepare for everything. Nobody can. However, you can prepare for problems and issues that are likely to arise.
Typically, when looking into "disaster" preparation, most everybody (with any common sense anyway) will tell you to prep for the most possible thing first. Hint: Zombies are not the most possible disaster, no mater where you live. In my region, one of the most possible problems would be a blizzard. This basically means I have to have a way to keep warm in the home or car if I lose electricity. Sure I can plan for losing water, gas and sewer too, but those are a lot less likely.
There are other non-natural disasters to prepare for too. Like unemployement. Many people I know have been out of a job for months, if not years. This is much harder to prepare for, but I'll leave that advice for other places.
The problem with all this prepping when you get fixated on it. You worry so much about "impending doom and gloom" that you look for it everywhere. Any little bit of even slightly bad news is an omen to the impending apocalypse! Fear and paranoia take over and start making decisions for you. This is bad. That's not to say "throw caution to the wind" and go do whatever you want, but don't only focus on the bad things.
Prep for things because it's the prudent thing to do, not out of some irrational fear of the government, zombies or your neighbor trying to steal your magic beans. At the same time as all this prepping, remember to live your life. There's no point in surviving catastrophies if you've got no reason to live. Do the things you enjoy, spend time with the people you love and make sure you have something to fight for when the aliens show up.
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