Hunter or Gatherer?

Are you a hunter or a gatherer? Which one is better is a very old debate...

The Hunter realizes a need can be satisfied, but he needs to take some great risk to satisfy that need. He may need to leave the confines of his home for days or weeks to find food, for instance. He weighs the risk and realizes the reward far outweighs the risk.

The Gatherer sees the same need in a far different way. The risk would never outweigh the need for security, and so, he stays very near the home and raises his food the slow way.

Both of them satisfy the needs of the family in their own way. In most cases, both of them are very happy in their methods...

A long time ago, society took a turn for the worse when it took the hunter out of most of us. Society would be much better off with an equal smattering of both, but over the centuries, the hunter has been pused aside.

I've always been a hunter... I've always gone after whatever was in my heart's desire realizing that the needs of my family far exceeded the risk. Once, I compared myself to the greatest hunter in mythology, Orion; strong willed, ethical, honorable, and good.

But a couple years ago, I realized that somehow I had allowed myself to become a gatherer... For the sake of my family, I left a very good career in the military to become a wage earner. I wasn't real happy. My earnings were fairly small, but my family life was very secure. Daily to work, nightly to home... My biggest challenge was in keeping my eyes open on the road and not falling asleep from the boredom of the whining engines stuck in traffic around me.

One day, I woke up and realized my family was stable but also not happy. I left my daily grind job looking for something with risk built in. I am once again a hunter. Now I love my job... I love my life more now than I have in a very long time.

Are you a hunter or a gatherer?