And you forgive me for expressing my totally personal ideas, "The essence of his story is connected with the essence of Buddhism". (Any religion is great. But I just see with the lenses in front of my mind.)
> It's a long story. But the first thing is, there was one moment where there was fruit on the tree, and I'm climbing on the tree, and there was a snake on the branch, and I want the fruit. So, the snake is in trouble. So, I manage to hit the snake off the branch, and it's a deadly snake. And before I know it, I'm flying off the tree after the snake, grabbing his tail, killing that snake, peeling its skin and chewing it alive. And I feel the best I've ever felt in my life. And then I'm coming back to my senses, and I recall that just minutes ago, I was miserable. I cannot handle the situation.
> So, wow. And that's a very important thing that I have realized. There are a few important things. First of all, we don't need to learn survival. We know it. Nobody needs any course, any kit, any book. It's completely nonsense. We know survival very well, that's what we know best.
There are 2 reasons this statement could be wrong. The first is this survivor bias, we dont read the stories of non survivors. The second from the transcript...
"... Well, the obvious reason was I finished my military service. ..."
Basic Training is short, and most of the time is spent on elementary soldier skills such as handling your equipment, coordinated movement etc (a lot more difficult to learn than it seems in CoD4 :)). Since he didn't have a gun with him in the jungle, his odds would be pretty much the same as the average young backpacker.