What If…You Were Stranded On A Desert Island — What 3 Things Would You Want With You

Caitlin McColl
Dose Of Wonder
Published in
3 min readOct 9, 2022

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Here’s today’s question:

What if …you were stranded for three months on a desert island? Which three items would you want to have with you?

My Kobo ereader full of books. It wouldn’t last 3 months, of course, but it would last a while. Yep, I’m on of those people.

A bunch of solar panels so I could power things that needed electricity. Like a generator! And then I could charge things like electronics — like my ereader, so that would keep me occupied, anyway.

A tent to keep me safe from inclement weather — and any hostile wildlife.

I was going to say something that would help me make food, or catch food but…I don’t know what that would be besides a fishing rod and net, really. I have a feeling I’d be eating a lot of fish. And I’d need something to cook the fish on. But I’d have like a little burner plate thing that I could turn on with my solar powered generator. Of course that’s more than 3 items.

Wait. Let me scrap my ereader and throw in a little burner thing and a pot or pan to cook stuff in. That’s 2 things. And the third thing would be a solar powered generator. A generator with built in solar…

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Caitlin McColl
Dose Of Wonder

Writer on mental health, grief & loss, mindfulness, running, life musings (+ fiction and poetry!). ❤️coffee & dogs. Vancouver 🇨🇦