Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule of The Week: Going It Alone
By Liam O'Leary
The Fear The Walking Dead midseason finale ended with Nick walking away, and showing us one of the greatest lessons in the zombie apocalypse.
In the zombie apocalypse, you will be tasked with ensuring your survival, and that’s just the point, your survival. Not other people, not the entire human race, your survival. This brings me to the point of our rule for the week…
Rule #68: Plan for one.
As I said before, in a zombie apocalypse, you, and you alone, are ultimately responsible for making sure that you remain amongst the living and do not join the ranks of the undead. It is your job to ensure that you find food, clean water, shelter, and a means of protecting yourself against both the living and the dead.
This means that your first priority is, no matter what your situation, that you can reasonably ensure you survive. Ultimately, you have to ask yourself: “Will I survive this?”
You have to ensure you can survive whatever nature throws at you, you have to ensure you can survive any run-ins with hostiles (However many there may be), and you definitely need to ensure that you can survive any encounters you might have with zombies.
Now, does that mean you should just abandon an otherwise good group of people (Assuming you don’t have a group comprised of friends or loved ones)?
NO. Absolutely not.
Being part of a group is one of the best ways of ensuring your own survival, if for no other reason, the simple fact that hostiles, and definitely zombies, will more than likely outnumber you…by a lot.
The problem is, sadly, that, you have no guarantee that the rest of your group will survive.
Whether it’s because of a herd of zombies, or an attack by hostiles, it may not take too much for much of your group to get scattered or even wiped out entirely in one incident.
While I’d like to say that you can rest assured that your entire group will last from the moment the zombie apocalypse begins until the moment it ends, that’s not how things work.
The fact is, death is a sad inevitability in a zombie apocalypse: Sooner or later, at least a few of the members of your group will die. It may not be all of them, and it may not be all at once, but, sooner or later, it will happen.
That is the reason this rule exists in the first place.
The point of this rule is not to encourage selfishness or being “That Guy”, but, to ensure that, if the worst happens, and you either get separated from your group or, God forbid, they get decimated, that you are still capable of surviving, even if you’re completely alone.
When I say “Plan for one”, I mean, “Plan in the event you lose everyone“. If you can survive successfully in a zombie apocalypse when you’re alone, you can damn sure survive if you’re part of a group.
And that is our lesson for today. If you like this and want to find out more rules to survive the zombie apocalypse, why not pick up a copy of my book, The Rules: A Guide To Surviving The Zombie Apocalypse! You can get it on Kindle here and on iTunes here!