The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: It’s What You Make Of It

2) Don’t Let Your Imagination Run Away With You.

I think one of the most interesting parts of this week’s episode of The Walking Dead was just how…messed up Princess’s perception of things was. I mean that, specifically, in how she would do things and (Albeit briefly) perceive those things as being done by somebody else. She had gotten to a point by the end of the episode where, even though she realized what she was doing, it took a great deal of willpower on her part to stop her imagination from literally running away with her.

I…don’t need to explain why that could be bad in a zombie apocalypse, do I?

Do you really need me to expound on the dangers of letting your imagination get so overpowering that you become detached from the reality of what’s going around you? I should hope not.

Let’s look at Princess, again, for a minute: When she was attacking the guard who brought her food, for several seconds, she legitimately believed that Ezekiel was attacking the guard and not her. What if she had been unable to stop “him”? The other Commonwealth guards probably would have killed her once they found out their young comrade had been murdered!

This is something you simply can not afford to have happened.

I know that this isn’t easy, but if you’re coherent enough to read this, you’re coherent enough to understand that you need to recognize when people are people and not zombies. When people are friendlies, not hostiles, and when you are doing something bad, and not someone you’re telling to stop. Let your imagination run away with you in any of those scenarios, and you’re probably going to end up doing something that you can’t undo and something that’s probably going to make other people think you’re too dangerous to keep around.