Thoughts of What IF

I enjoy reading a lot.  I have a Kidle Fire with almost 100 books on it and I have only had it since the middle of November.  My favorite author is William Johnstone.  He wrote western series about Mountain Men and another series called "Out of the Ashes".  Both of these series can be thought provoking.  When I am reading the western series I think about likfe back then and whether or not I would of been able to survive in that time.  My favorite dream is having a ranch of my own and just enjoying every day that I had in order to make a go of that ranch.  The other series was written in the 1980's but if you read it today you would say to yourself that the things in the book are happening today.  This series gets you to thinking about what you would do if this situation happened.  Could you survive?  Would you look out for your neighbors or would you become one of the burdens to society?  Would you be self-sufficient or would you have a hand out waiting for the government to take care of you?  The good thing about books is the fact that if you read you work your imagination and that gets the thought process going so that maybe if something unexpected happened you wouldn't be helpless.