Thankfully, my earliest survival experience kicked in... and I remembered how to stay calm and self-sufficient, instead of reacting out of fear.
So to get enough nutrients...
I had to learn how to barter some of my supplies with others in my troop...
And I learned how to negotiate and trade my supplies I had brought with me, in exchange for the foods and proteins the other people in my troop already had.
(At this point, it was critical that I had ALL the nutrients I'd need if I wanted to stay as healthy and alert as possible.)
And thankfully, it worked.
But what’s more important here is that I learned how to become self-reliant in threatening situations, so I could protect my livelihood...
So I could count on me and ONLY me, wherever and whenever I needed to...
Especially when my well-being and safety was at risk.
So…
Instinctively, I knew I had to stay prepared and on my toes. Because another emergency could strike at any moment.
Lo and behold...
On the second night, all of my clothes became soaking wet and freezing cold because of the weather and the murky environment we were in...
And I knew this could be a physically threatening situation.
Unlike the peers in my troop, I did my best to stay calm.
I threw off my pants and got in the sleeping bag so I could warm up, and rest overnight before things could get any scarier.
And when I finally woke up, I had no clue my pants froze solid as I slept…
After discovering that the next morning, I had to figure out how to deal with it and decided to tie a rope around my sleeping bag as a makeshift belt.
Then I built a fire to thaw out my clothes and do my best to dry them.
With this same fire, I was also able to heat up some of the left-over meats and proteins that almost went bad.
From there I found out that…