Am I a Prepper?

I’ve been looking at images of the end of the world since I was 8 years old. The collapse of civilization was a desolate backdrop to some of my favorite movies and then predicted, ad nauseam, by scientists on the nightly news. In grade 10, we had to watch a documentary about a computer projecting how overpopulation would lead to societal collapse in our lifetime.
There are plenty of websites that will sell you survival kits and all kinds of special food, but that just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. You can save more money and eat better food by just adjusting your diet and purchasing habits to eat healthy, nutritious foods that store well—and you actually enjoy. You don’t want that stuff sitting in a cupboard forever.
Maybe that whole “crazy prepper” stereotype needs to be revisited. I’ve been looking into these preppers a bit and most of them are just people that like to be ready for whatever life throws at them. As for me, I’d like my catcher’s mitt to be a little bigger still.