Personal Qualities and Skills for Survival in Wilderness

Personal Qualities and Skills for Survival in Wilderness People live their lives hoping each day to be better than the previous one. They make short and long term plans; they take loans, buy houses, expensive cars and other things that make their life more comfortable. In other words, people expect an improved life in future, and they are ready for that. However, residence in this world is unpredictable, and unfortunately we don’t have the ability to foresee what vicissitudes of fate have been prepared for us. For this reason we must be ready to survive in case of sudden variations of our life. One of good examples how life can change any second and how difficult it becomes to survive is given in David’s Mamet’s story “The Edge”. The main characters in “The Edge”, an intellectual billionaire named Charles Morse, and self-satisfied fashion photographer Robert Green, have been stranded in the wilderness after their plane crashes in the freezing Alaskan woods. This sudden alteration of their life overtook them without any preparedness. On the other hand, billionaire Charles Morse had valuable knowledge, the will to survive and personal qualities that allowed him to stay alive in wilderness. First, Charles Morse had valuable knowledge for survival in wilderness. Regardless the fact that his mental outfit was just theoretical, he managed to use it practically. Making a compass from a needle, building a shelter, getting food for himself and his friend of fate are just few examples of efforts that Charles Morse has made to survive in Alaskan wilderness. However, it takes much more than knowledge to build a shelter, get food, make a fire, and travel without the aid of standard navigational devices to live successfully through a survival situation. Second, Charles Morse had will to survive that is essential trying to stay alive in wilderness. Charles managed to maintain this will to stay alive despite all the failures that followed him and his comrade: the loss of a