I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners' featured post. One mistake many people make during a war is letting emotions cloud their judgment, and that way they end up taking actions that they regret taking in the end. It is not easy to stay calm and not panic in war, but the truth is that we make better decisions with a clear mind. The moment you let the chaos and confusion of war control you, you make one mistake after another, and then in the end you are left with so many regrets.
Trust me when I say that war is not a pleasant thing and renders people homeless. War is one of the things that can take from a 10 to a 0. War can leave scars even after the war is over; that country, state, or village will never be the same again after the war. It will take years to build back to the level it was before the war and many years to grow past the level it was before the war. War, chaos, and crisis are some of the causes of a country's economy to regress instead of progress. It is not something anyone should wish for, but I wonder why there are people who even want it more than they want peace because of one belief or the other.
War is not something you actually rush into or let your emotions or panic control you. Like I have said earlier, it is something you deal with strategically. Wars are always chaotic; they are unpredictable (you don't know when it will end or how bloody it is going to be; you just cannot tell much about it when it starts), and it can be very dangerous, so my first line of action won't be to join the war; it will be to make sure that my family and close ones are safe. The first line of action will be to move my family to a location where the war won't likely affect them badly or won't affect them at all, even though that is hard to tell, but we just have to try.
After we get to a secure location, then we will start talking about how to secure supplies like food, water, and maybe communication to know where is safe and if where we are is safe enough or we have to move. Once family is safe, we can start trying to check if other things, like important documents, can be saved too. That way, after the war, we will not have to start all over again or have issues reclaiming what is ours. Some might say survive the war before you talk about important documents, but the truth is that surviving the war without them will also leave you in regrets.
Not everyone serves best on the frontline or battlefield, so joining the army won't even cross my mind unless it becomes mandatory and I cannot escape. Aside from that, in a world war, the first thing I'd do is ensure my family's safety because surviving the war without them is the same thing as dying in the war because one can never recover from such a thing. It scars one for life knowing fully well that you could have helped keep them safe, but instead you joined the army and left them to fend for themselves.
