The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Trust And Lies
By Liam O'Leary
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Sometimes you have to make a leap of faith.
I don’t like saying that because I find blindly jumping into things in a zombie apocalypse generally a bad prospect. However, I’m not oblivious that you don’t necessarily know what will happen next. Sure, you can make educated guesses, but you can’t absolutely predict how things will play out, and because of that, there is a certain blindness to the things you choose to do.
Earlier, I said that if you’re dealing with liars deep within your group, you’ll need hard proof of their lies if you want any hope of dealing with them. Even if you have hard evidence, you don’t have a guarantee that the rest of your community will believe you or, if they do, have the will to come together to get rid of the liars in your midst. If you have proof and present it to the rest of your community, the moment you do, you’re trusting that things will work out the way you hope they will. Will they? If the lies are egregious enough and the proof solid enough, probably, but, again, nothing is guaranteed.
My point with all of this is that, at some point, as crazy as it may sound, you need to have faith because, no matter what, there will always be things that you simply can not control, which could determine whether you succeed or fail. Every time you do anything, to some degree, you trust that things will work out, even if you have more control over some scenarios than others; all I’m asking is that you realize that you’re doing it.
We can’t control everything in a zombie apocalypse, and when it comes to big decisions, we can’t let that uncertainty cripple us because that may be just as bad as failure. Prepare as best you can, but when your options are “take the risk to succeed” or “do nothing and fail,” sometimes, you have to take the risk and have faith things will work.
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And that’s our Walking Dead Survival Rule Of The Week! Because so much is life or death in a zombie apocalypse, trust becomes much more critical, as does knowing when people are lying you. If you don’t have the former, and can’t figure out the latter, you won’t last too long. If you want better shot at both, 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!