TWD, Survival Rule Of The Week: You can’t run from problems

4) Problems Don’t Go Away Just Because You Pretend They’re Not There

It’s one thing to avoid problems in a zombie apocalypse — Sometimes you can get away with it, sometimes confronting problems isn’t the best course of action — but it’s quite another thing when you pretend that a problem you know is there…isn’t.

The former could be excused as “Getting all your ducks in a row,” but the latter is just dumb — Believing that if you ignore a problem long enough, it’ll go away.

It won’t.

Realistically, the scenario I gave a little while ago can easily be interpreted as this, with the hypothetical you in that scenario knowing there’s a herd in the vicinity and just pretending like ignoring it will make it magically vanish.

That sort of behavior is the kind of thing that gets people killed in a zombie apocalypse. Rather than trying to dedicate their time to figure out some way of either dealing with the problem or finding a new base to ride out the situation, the people in question just act as if the issue isn’t there at all and go about their merry way. Doing nothing to prepare for a problem that is more likely than not going to march to their doorstep eventually.

What’s so bad about this approach is the simple fact that, whatever disaster the problem in question creates, it can, to some degree, be avoided if people just devote their energies to trying to find a real solution to the problem, rather than sitting on their asses and doing nothing.

When you have a problem in a zombie apocalypse, the only way to deal with it is to deal with it, which leads me right into…