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

2) You Have To Find Your Reason To Keep Going

Much of this week’s Fear The Walking Dead focused on John wanting to end his life and Morgan trying to help him find a reason not to.

The problem was, John couldn’t find one. The only reason why he was still alive when Morgan and Dakota found him was that his door was gone, and he didn’t want the walkers that would wash up at his cabin devouring his corpse, so he went looking for a new door to protect himself.

However, after stopping Marcus from killing Morgan, guiding Dakota in driving through the herd gathered at the bridge, and learning what actually happened to Cameron, John had finally found that reason to live. And that was to steer Dakota away from the increasingly ruthless mindset Virginia’s approach to things had given her.

This is something you are going to need to do once you find yourself in the zombie apocalypse. You are going to need to find some reason to keep going.

What is that reason? I can’t tell you; it really depends on you. What do you care about? Your friends? Your family? Your loved ones? Your future? Your reason might be something or someone you haven’t even met yet, someone you’ll meet once the outbreak begins.

For some of us, it might be something so simple as the realization that there will be a post-apocalypse, not as in “Right after the apocalypse,” but as in “Once the apocalypse is over.” Zombies, being zombies, aren’t going to last forever. They’ll decompose long before every living person dies, meaning that there will be a future, a chance to rebuild.

Maybe that’s all people need to keep going: Knowing that there will be a tomorrow.