The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: The Monsters Within

4) Sometimes, It Does Pay To Left Off A Little Steam.

Earlier, I mentioned how letting your anger loose can be detrimental in a zombie apocalypse. That said…it also has its occasional benefits too.

Let’s look at Negan for a second: After coming home to find Lucille a walker, he took what little he had, and burnt their home to the ground with her walker inside, then went to find the biker gang that had held him captive. They were in the midst of rummaging through Dr. Franklin’s stuff and beating him much in the way they’d done Negan to find out if he had more drugs to steal or trade. Negan, knowing that he had nothing left to lose, and feeling that what he did have the gang had already caused him to lose, swept through the Vipers like a tornado, wiping out every last one of them, before telling their leader about his last few months with his wife, and all the problems they had just before and during the apocalypse, before finally scrambling the gang leader’s brains with “Lucille.”

Negan had found the right place and the right time to unleash his anger that had been building for months, eliminating a violent gang of thugs, and saving the lives of at least two good people, a doctor and his (adopted?) daughter (Who would turn out to be future Savior Laura), in the process.

We’re all going to get angry at some point in a zombie apocalypse (Duh), but whether or not it’s going to cause us problems depends on the situation we find ourselves in and the circumstances in which we let it loose.

Done right, our rage can fuel us with enough adrenaline to tear through dozens of zombies and hostiles and perform feats of strength, speed, and endurance we couldn’t conceivable do otherwise. It can even cause us to shake off wounds and injuries that would normally stop us dead in our tracks.

In a zombie apocalypse, what you need to do with your anger is to learn to harness it, put it towards something constructive, and, barring that, use it at the right time, when it can be most effective and damage your enemies the most. Don’t do it against enemies that grossly outnumber you, outgun you, or are expecting your arrival. That will get you killed. Save it for enemies who don’t know you’re coming, who aren’t armed to the teeth, and who don’t outnumber you better than ten to one.

Just like so many of our emotions, our anger can be a source of weakness, or it can be a source of strength, a beast that, when unleashed properly, can be the thing that tears down those who would do us harm. It’s all in when and how we choose to let our monsters off the leash.

And that’s your Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week! We all have monsters inside of us, and, hopefully, you’ve learned that if you don’t control them, they’ll make the zombie apocalypse even worse for you than it already will be. 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!