The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Control
By Liam O'Leary
The Walking Dead’s final season
If you try to control everything, you will go crazy.
It’s been pretty apparent for a while now that Lance Hornsby has designs on being the boss of Alexandria, Hilltop, and Oceanside (assuming he leaves anyone alive). He longs to be seen as the guy who makes the Commonwealth run (which, to be fair, he pretty much is), but, as was also obvious in this week’s episode, trying to become boss is not going to come without its headaches, or face aches, I guess.
Hornsby’s quest for power is a perfect symbol of what will happen to you if you try to control everything in a zombie apocalypse.
Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of things you can control — What food you grow, what animals you raise, how much effort you put into raising them, who you recruit to your group, where you live, etc. — but attempting to control everything is a completely fruitless and futile task.
I think this goes without saying, but: You can’t control everything, whether you’re in a zombie apocalypse or not. There will always be things out of your control, things that you may not even be able to predict, and attempting to tamp down all of them will only result in driving you insane as some new thing keeps popping up to force you go after it, and the next thing, and the next thing ad infinitum.
If you try to control everything, you will only succeed in slowly losing control.