Xocoyotziin
Scorpion
- Sep 5, 2020
- 402
Hello
So I'm staying in a tent at a nice little campground at the moment
This is my first time "properly" camping alone, and I've made a few mistakes
Like not bringing a flashlight aside from my phone and bringing fewer utensils than I should have
Things have been going smoothly enough and I've improvised a bit
I was cozying up and getting ready to sleep after streaming some netflix when I realized something: I have a cooler full of food sitting next to me, thankfully with no meat which I figure is most enticing. And then I thought of bears. The first thing I did like a true noob was jump on google to hopefully assuage my fears but that did not work when I read basically everywhere that storing food in your tent is a well known camping no-no and that I'm an idiot for not thinking of it earlier. I have no car to relocate it to so instead of sleeping I'm going to sit on this picnic bench and chain smoke all night, which I'm not sure you're allowed to do, because even if it's statistically unlikely I'd rather not be ambushed in my sleep.
I had earlier been thinking for unrelated reasons about how I've never been in a serious physical conflict, I'm a mega wuss and I've failed every test to assert dominance I've been presented with, especially with dogs, who can smell my wuss pheromones and almost universally hate me.
I read about people who somehow scared off bear invaders but I am 90% sure if it happened to me I'd be mauled to death after a split second where they'd measure me up as the non-threat I am, without a chance to explain myself and why killing me is unnecessary. This, to me, is very different from the careful, measured, and merciful death I could give myself.
Though it's the primary and often only means of communicating with animals, this "instinctive arena" bleeds into human relationships a lot as well.
How can someone like me overcome their inability to fight in such a way, without exposing themselves to potentially dangerous situations? It seems to me like it's a lot of grandstanding and signalling strength you may or may not really have to deceive your opponent into believing you have no fear. My instinctive modality, on the other hand, is to either remain stonedfaced and slip away as soon as possible or admit my fear and run like hell because I assume they can sense it anyway because who the hell wouldn't be scared in this situation?
Does anyone else have the same problem of being a hardcoded wuss who just can't override their flight reflexes, and hates conflict whenever it involves real stakes? Did you learn to overcome it, hopefully by choice? And are any of you naturally very capable of scaring off a bear who may be multiple times your strength and size? If so, what is it like and what's your thought process?
I apologize if this is long or disorganized.
So I'm staying in a tent at a nice little campground at the moment
This is my first time "properly" camping alone, and I've made a few mistakes
Like not bringing a flashlight aside from my phone and bringing fewer utensils than I should have
Things have been going smoothly enough and I've improvised a bit
I was cozying up and getting ready to sleep after streaming some netflix when I realized something: I have a cooler full of food sitting next to me, thankfully with no meat which I figure is most enticing. And then I thought of bears. The first thing I did like a true noob was jump on google to hopefully assuage my fears but that did not work when I read basically everywhere that storing food in your tent is a well known camping no-no and that I'm an idiot for not thinking of it earlier. I have no car to relocate it to so instead of sleeping I'm going to sit on this picnic bench and chain smoke all night, which I'm not sure you're allowed to do, because even if it's statistically unlikely I'd rather not be ambushed in my sleep.
I had earlier been thinking for unrelated reasons about how I've never been in a serious physical conflict, I'm a mega wuss and I've failed every test to assert dominance I've been presented with, especially with dogs, who can smell my wuss pheromones and almost universally hate me.
I read about people who somehow scared off bear invaders but I am 90% sure if it happened to me I'd be mauled to death after a split second where they'd measure me up as the non-threat I am, without a chance to explain myself and why killing me is unnecessary. This, to me, is very different from the careful, measured, and merciful death I could give myself.
Though it's the primary and often only means of communicating with animals, this "instinctive arena" bleeds into human relationships a lot as well.
How can someone like me overcome their inability to fight in such a way, without exposing themselves to potentially dangerous situations? It seems to me like it's a lot of grandstanding and signalling strength you may or may not really have to deceive your opponent into believing you have no fear. My instinctive modality, on the other hand, is to either remain stonedfaced and slip away as soon as possible or admit my fear and run like hell because I assume they can sense it anyway because who the hell wouldn't be scared in this situation?
Does anyone else have the same problem of being a hardcoded wuss who just can't override their flight reflexes, and hates conflict whenever it involves real stakes? Did you learn to overcome it, hopefully by choice? And are any of you naturally very capable of scaring off a bear who may be multiple times your strength and size? If so, what is it like and what's your thought process?
I apologize if this is long or disorganized.
