40 years later, I can still clearly remember the doubtful look in my fathers eyes when I told him in 1985 that I managed to escape the then still mandatory military service. He didn’t voice his feelings but I could tell, that as a fairly recent WW2 veteran, he was worried about this new trend.

Now that the world is becoming less stable I sense a need to invest in my personal resilience in order to be ready for whatever is ahead of us (as I have taken my own resilience for granted for a while).

In order to evaluate my current resilience I have scored myself against the following 4 (self designed) categories (on a scale of 0 to 10):

1. body & mind (8): behind on quality of food intake and overall physical flexibility
2. work & income (7): as expenditure exceeds income and exposure of savings to current uncertainties
3. living environment (7): based on overall level of pollution and level of reliance on third parties (around ao energy)
4. family, friends and community (6): based on distance, frequency of interaction and limited mutual support.

For now I’ll focus on category 4. Basically scaling down on the individualistic traits that characterise many within my generation by experimenting various ways to (re)connect with those close to me.