Member-only story

What Would Be Your Best Post-Apocalyptic Skill?

Did you think of one yet?

Sara Burdick
7 min readMar 31, 2022
Just before the rains came, very apocalyptic!

The other day, we visited my boyfriend’s friends, and I was in my dream world, not paying attention. They were speaking in Spanish, and if I wanted to understand what they were saying, I had to pay attention.

I was not; they were about four beers in, and at that point, it was all Paisa slang and incomprehensible to me. Then I heard “apocalipsis,” which in English is the apocalypse; some Spanish-English words are easy!

My ears instantly perked up since I am an incognito apocalyptic lover and have been working on developing skills for years, whether conscious or unconscious.

My father always talked about the “end of days”.

Always be learning unique skills, so if the world ends, you will survive. Even when I took a few years off, I was still thinking about this fruit can help decrease this, or this food can help increase this, or even this herb is good for sleep.

Botanical garden Jerico, I have the same flowers planted but just babies!

You get the point; it has always been something that, at the very least, has interested me. I never thought that this would be a conversation appropriate in my lifetime.

--

--

Sara Burdick
Sara Burdick

Written by Sara Burdick

I quit the rat race after working as a nurse for 16 years. Travel and Storyteller. I live in Colombia. https://substack.com/@saraburdick

Responses (27)