It's easy to get swept away by the doom and gloom and the pending disaster of the moment. At times like this, it feels like we have annihilation bearing down on us from every angle: the economy is almost kaput, nuclear powers like Russia and China aren't our biggest fans, and civil war could erupt at any moment. And that doesn't even take into account random natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes, or horrific accidents like the train derailment in Ohio.

It's enough to make you wonder how on earth you're going to manage to live through what's coming.

Suddenly there's an avalanche of overwhelm, and it's the kinds of questions that keep preppers up at night. Do you have enough supplies? Can you trust your group? Are you really ready? What if you forgot something vital? How can you get more money to get prepped? What if…what if…what if…

Let me stop you right there.

Spoiler: You're probably going to survive it.

I have a lot of evidence supporting that. Here's what you need to consider whenever you feel like you're not going to make it.

Your ancestors survived.

First of all, you need to remember that you yourself come from a long line of survivors. It's quite literally in your blood.

If your ancestors had not survived for dozens of generations, you wouldn't be here. It's not enough to simply have reproduced. Someone had to get the next generation to adulthood so that they, too, could procreate.