Fear The Walking Dead, SROTW: Future In A Dead World

2) “Don’t Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch”

The future is not a certainty, whether there are zombies in it or not, and, as such, it’s not a good idea to build that future on something you don’t have yet. Sadly, it would seem, no one told Grace that.

So much of this week’s Fear was about this future that Grace was assured that was going to come to pass, a future where everyone at Morgan’s community was alive and well, and they (Along with Alicia, Luciana, and Wes at Dell Diamond Stadium) were all thriving, with no apparent human threats, all based off of the hope and resolve Athena’s birth gave everyone. To Grace, this wasn’t simply a dream, but a premonition, a vision of what was going to happen.

The problem was, it was based on a person who hadn’t even been born yet.

It doesn’t need to be a child’s birth; it could be anything — A structure you want to make as a base, a weapon or arsenal that you want to find, a stockpile of a specific resource, etc., that you think will be the one thing you and your group need to get over the hump in the apocalypse — but, whatever it is, if you don’t actually have it, and are planning as if you do, you’re setting yourself up for failure, or at least, severe disappointment.

The reason is fairly obvious: You don’t have whatever it is you’re hinging your plans upon having. This is like assuming plans will work out or that you won’t run into zombies in a zombie apocalypse. It’s just foolish.

I have to stress again: This isn’t me saying you should assume everything will break down on you in the apocalypse, but it is me saying that you should never assume things will go perfect or exactly as you planned, because it will not happen, and assuming it will only result in a blow to your resolve that you can’t afford.