Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: The Reason Why

1) We Need A Reason To Go On

A zombie apocalypse will be like a waking nightmare: The world as we know it, all the familiar things it, and many of the people we cared about will be gone. And with it, whatever future we might have thought we had will be gone.

There’s only so much people can take. For many people, when all of these things — Their past, their present, and their future — are taken from them, it can be draining, to say the least.

Losing so much, so rapidly, is extremely bad for people and the goal of survival because it can make people believe there’s nothing to look forward to and suddenly make them start thinking that death is a better option.

My whole point here is that moving forward in a zombie apocalypse won’t be like getting up in the morning on a normal day. Where you are expecting people, you are surviving with to carry on as normal as that is unrealistic because of just how bleak and unforgiving the apocalypse will be.

To go forward, people need a reason to live. Anything to remind them that there is a reason to stay alive and keep staying alive and doing whatever they have to for that purpose. You need to recognize that if the people you’re surviving with are directionless in the apocalypse, you’re going to have an uphill climb trying to keep them going.