The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Only If You Let It
By Liam O'Leary
4) Once You Let The Bad In, It’s Tough To Get It Out.
As bad as letting things like fear, doubt, malice, hate, and cruelty seep into your mind is, what might be worse is the fact that such things are extremely difficult to get out of.
It’s so tough to expunge the brainworm that these things can be. Some people can never completely get rid of them.
And…what happens if you can’t? What happens if you can’t get rid of that crippling fear? What happens if you can’t shake off the doubt? Or the hate? Or all of the other flaws and evils that seek to rot your spirit?
I know that if you can’t shake the fear, it will petrify you. When you get attacked by zombies, it could prevent you from reacting in time, if at all. If you can’t shake the doubt? It’ll stop you from doing the hard things, the necessary things, because it will convince you that you can’t, that you can’t do them, or that you’re doing them wrong.
The malice, the cruelty, the hate? If you let those seep into your brain, and you can’t get rid of them…that’s when you’re in real trouble.
What do you do if you start attacking people for no reason? What if you start hating people who did nothing to you? What do you do when you start getting a taste for cruelty? How do you shake those? What if these things cause you to do something you can’t live it? Then what?
This is why you can’t let things like these into your mind in a zombie apocalypse, no matter how bad things get, because you may never be able to get them out, and the things those flaws may make you do things you can’t forgive yourself for.