Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Prepare for disaster

Preparation #5: Accept your circumstances.

When we were kids, my older brother used to try to ignore when it was snowing outside. I would happily watch the snow accumulate, hoping school would be cancelled, but, my brother would always try to downplay it. At the beginning of a particularly bad blizzard, my brother looked out the window and told himself “It’s not snowing, it’s not piling up!” before having to admit the exact opposite. In a zombie apocalypse (Or any kind of disaster, really), you can’t go around acting like my brother, pretending that the disaster isn’t happening; That just foolish.

The fact is, the longer you go around doing that, the worse it will be when you inevitably have to accept what’s going on.

In the case of a natural disaster or a zombie apocalypse, that denial will only leave you with less (Or no) time to prepare, leaving you with little supplies or trapped in the epicenter of the disaster.

If your disaster is losing someone, denying that fact will only make it worse. Sooner or later, you have to acknowledge that this person you cared about is gone. You can’t just crawl into some imaginary world where they’re still alive; It’s unhealthy, and I can’t imagine it becoming better the longer you go about it, furthermore, you’ll still have other hazards (Probably zombies) around to deal with! Do you think you’ll be effective fighting the dead while spiraling into a delusion of being with a dead loved one? Somehow…I doubt it.

The sooner you accept it, the better off you’ll be.