Self Sufficiency or Being a Slug

Self Sufficiency

Self Sufficiency is the ability to supply your own needs without external assistance. We are designed to be independent with free will and mobility and we are driven to be self-supporting. Our free will is the clue to the fact that we need to be self-sufficient. We are driven to be autonomous. We seek independence and freedom.

Being a Slug

A slug is a snail without a shell. It eats other worms, but is essentially at the bottom of the food chain. Mommas shouldn’t let their boys grow up to be slugs.

Slugs don’t just waste time, they waste all of their time.  They lay around and do nothing.  They aren’t good at school work, so they don’t do any. They hang out with other Slugs and get into trouble. They take drugs to escape the reality they have created for themselves.

We’ve had slow achievers in past decades, but we put them to work until they could catch up and become self-supporting. The typical farm family had several kids who did chores and were expected to do well in school. A typical family with 6 kids would have a couple of over-achievers, some in the middle and one who did poorly in school. As they grew, some went on to college and left home. The slow achiever stayed and worked on the farm. Eventually, these slow achievers learned to read and write adequately enough to function. They ended up inheriting the farm and lived out their days productively. They developed stamina and they became humble successes.

We have seen slow achievers rally and pick up the pace. Thomas Aquinas was called the “dumb ox” in school, because he was slow to speak, but he later became a Doctor of the Catholic Church.  I went to high school with guys who got Cs and Ds, but went on to college and got PhDs.

I knew a guy who didn’t go to college, but he became a millionaire, because he saw a better way to do things at his job pulling fenders in a junk yard and it worked. He borrowed some telex machines and established a “one call” method for body shops to order parts efficiently.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader