The Sarah Connor Charm School

I was raised to be prepared, but mostly in the gathering food and supplies, knowing first aid, and having lots of babies. Mine was a very religious upbringing that included very strict ideas about women's roles. As far as fighting went, I was taught to shoot what was considered effectively enough to defend said babies and supplies should the men have failed to keep any looters at bay. I now laugh at what was considered "effectively enough."

I was engaged to a man of our faith, as I was expected to be, who happened to have heard of Sarah Connor and ended up introducing me to her. She changed my whole way of thinking about preparing. I realized that I needed to prepare myself as well, to become stronger and more capable. I began working out for the first time in my life, running and lifting weights, dropped more weight than I want to admit and started putting on muscle. By the time I did my first chin-up my fiance was gone, while he might accept Sarah for what she was he wanted his roly-poly housewife and not someone like her for a wife.

I can't say how much it was Sarah who influenced everything, but I know that meeting her sent me on a new road. My breakup didn't destroy me the way it should have given what I had always believed was my role. Instead, I focused on what I wanted for the first time in my life and I began questioning my faith and how much it could run my life. I took up martial arts training, began real defensive gun training, I got licensed as a private investigator and security contractor. I slowly, very slowly, began to accept that perhaps, well, maybe, I was a

FEMINIST

There, said it. Something that would have horrified my former self.

I met a new man who liked what I had become, feminist and all. While he is a brave Resistance fighter as well, he's also the one that stays home and does most of the office work at home and homeschools our future SCCS student and Resistance fighter. And she's our only one and will remain so, again a sharp change from my dozens of babies future I once saw.

As I said, how much of this is Sarah's "fault" is hard to determine. After meeting her all those years ago, I have discovered other influences. But if I hadn't met her, if I hadn't heard the message she shared, I don't know if I ever would have found those other things. There is a small chance I might not be alive. Or I might be so overwhelmed with my motherly and wifely duties that I'd never have had a chance to see them at all.

As a family we continue to learn, to train, to prepare for the future that is to come, what ever it might be.

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