Fundamental Skills

It was an uncomplicated existence
when for so long little option was
offered by time and place but to
fend for oneself for the consequence
was dire and final so people learned
of necessity to value and pursue
the elementals of existence. They
rose with the sun and slept when it
set. Furnished rude tools enabling
tasks to be completed. Ate what they
could finding sources unknown to
this day for nourishment and when
ill employed the most basic of plant
knowledge to aid recovery. Entertain
themselves and their neighbours in
the sharing of talents and the passing
of gossip. Appealing for help when 
their own failed in the assurance it
would be forthcoming for they had
themselves responded to similar such
appeals. They lived and they thrived 
or they existed until they no longer
could never able to look into a future
where technology would vault their
descendants into spheres of accomplished
satisfaction in bending nature to their
will, expediting tasks once burdensome
communicating with exotic others
around an utterly changed world but
never realizing food preparation skills
simply because time and energy lacked.