The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: What you need from yourself
By Liam O'Leary
6) Courage
A zombie apocalypse (Hell, just the beginning of a zombie apocalypse) will be terrifying. It will be Hell on Earth, and…some people won’t be able to take it. To survive, you’ll need to.
This is a tough one because, while we can see representations of what a zombie apocalypse might look like, the fact they’re TV shows and movies allows us to be detached from them. It isn’t the same as actually being in that situation, and without that, we can’t truly gauge just how frightening that, and the larger implications that come with it, would genuinely be.
Also, it isn’t easy to prepare yourself for it, even if you could. How can you prepare to watch the world implode, watch society tear itself apart, and potentially watch neighbors, friends, and loved ones either get eaten by zombies or become zombies themselves? I’m not really sure how.
That said, you need to find some way to ready yourself, however possible, for those horrors, because, if you can’t, you may not survive for long, as you find yourself so paralyzed with fear in your first encounter with a zombie that it simply gets the better of you, and condemns you to share its fate.
You need to be able to overcome your fears because, more than anything else, they are what’s most likely to cripple you when the zombie outbreak hits and will lead to countless unnecessary deaths, as panicked mobs trample innocent people and get swarmed by increasing hordes of zombies.
Don’t let yourself become one of them. Find your courage. Don’t let fear overtake you. You may not be able to stop yourself from being afraid, but you can damn sure stop yourself from being paralyzed by that fear.
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And that’s your Survival Rule Of The Week! Hopefully, you’ve learned what you need from yourself to stay alive in a zombie apocalypse. If you like this and want something else to help you survive the zombie apocalypse, why not pick up a copy of my book, The Rules: A Guide To Surviving The Zombie Apocalypse! You can also get it at Amazon here, on iTunes here!