TWD, Survival Rule Of The Week: Good People And Bad People

5) Just Because Someone Looks Bad, Doesn’t Mean They Are, And, Even If They Are, It Doesn’t Mean They Can’t Change.

The old saying of “Never judge a book by its cover” is especially prescient in a zombie apocalypse. The end of the world forces all sorts of people who might never have been willing to coexist to team up to survive and forces people who might not have liked or even cared about others to throw that aside in the face of shared annihilation. Such is the way of things.

This is what the apocalypse does: It tests the mettle of people and makes the good shine through in people who no one else might have even seen any good in because that person recognizes the nature of the situation they find themselves in and chooses to rise to the occasion.

Think of the mafia during World War II. Faced with the shared enemy of the Axis Powers, the mafia agreed to use their influence in America’s ports to ensure that no Axis saboteurs disrupted America’s war effort. They didn’t do this simply because it benefited them but because they knew the Axis would treat them no differently than anyone else they saw as an enemy. If they could do that, then it’s not impossible that people who might otherwise be seen as disreputable can prove noble in a zombie apocalypse.

Now, obviously, there will be some people who you definitely don’t want hanging around with you in the zombie apocalypse. Still, there will also be people who may appear bad or untrustworthy, and even people who’ve done bad things that, when presented with zombies or people even worse than themselves (Which is always possible), will do the right thing and help you to fight off this threat. The thing is, though: You need to be willing to give those people a chance.

Even nowadays, people are far more willing to judge others based on erroneous perceptions of them rather than that person’s actual merits or actions. It’s a bad habit people need to break because…it’s not helpful. By doing it, people only succeed in driving each other further away, and, overall, making them weaker. Do this in a zombie apocalypse, and you’d just make it easier for zombies or hostiles to pick you off.

If you want to survive, you need to learn to recognize the good in people and even your own willingness (Or lack thereof) to see that good in people. If you aren’t willing to see past the surface of people, aren’t willing to give them a chance, then, ultimately, you will lose. You will not survive.

There are good people out there; you just have to be willing to see it.

And that’s your Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week! Hopefully, you’ve learned that there will be both good and bad people in the zombie apocalypse and why you need to keep both a suspicious mind as well as an open one. 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!