Playful Safety
One of the lists I have used as a back story to this safety series deals with survival situations. One of the items is play games. Huh, in a life or death situation you want to play tiddly winks? Seems counter intuitive.
Recently I’ve begun reading Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales. The book attempts to explain why some people survive situations and some don’t.
Early in the book Gonzales says that only 10 to 20 percent of people can stay calm enough in an emergency/survival situation. There’s incentive enough to plan ahead and try to avoid finding out that you might be in the 80 to 90 percent group.
Where does the game playing come in? Quoted in the book is a psychologist who says that “surivors laught at threats. Playing keeps the person in contact with what is happening.”
Later he talks about fighter pilots making off color jokes while eating a pre flight meal. More humor in a tense situation.
So, stay light hearted to stay safe.
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