Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule: How far would you go?

Fear the Walking Dead – Gone

You need to be able to come back from the edge.

Madison decided to help Morgan infiltrate P.A.D.R.E. after seeing his reaction in confronting the walker of a woman he wound up dragging into a conflict with Madison’s employers. She saw that Morgan still hadn’t given up his moral compass the way she had. Because Morgan wasn’t “gone,” she believed he deserved a chance to get Mo back, and she was intent on helping him do it.

By helping Morgan retrieve Mo and putting a stop to P.A.D.R.E.’s kidnapping ring, I think Madison believes that she can redeem herself and make herself worthy of reuniting with Alicia should the day come that she finds her.

When you’ve gone too far, be it by someone else’s standards or your own, there is a cost. Whether making new enemies, causing a rift with your group, or being unable to live with yourself, you don’t want things to remain like that forever, and if it’s possible to make amends for your actions, you’ll want to do it.

You don’t want to be hunted by people forever, particularly ones you weren’t enemies with beforehand, nor do you want to be abandoned by your group. It’s difficult to fix things with people. Still, if you can find common ground with your enemies, maybe by helping them deal with a different enemy, you might be able to slowly turn them back to neutral, which is better than having enemies. As for people in your group, you’d need to work towards rebuilding trust with them. Saving them from a threat will help to remind them that you still care, which may, hopefully, cause them to remember how much you’ve been through together and bridge the gap between you.

The last one, though? That might be more difficult. If you’ve done something that you feel is too far, there’s a good chance that you may not be capable of living with your actions. The kind of guilt, shame, and despair one would feel from violating their code in the apocalypse would be enough that suicide might be seen as a viable option. You need to be able to forgive yourself if you want to avoid that. If you can work to undo your mistakes as much as possible, it might, over time, give you the means of forgiving yourself, and prevent yourself from being so disgusted with yourself that suicide starts to look reasonable.

It may not matter whether other people like you or not, but if you can’t live it with what you’ve done, that’s a state of affairs you can’t let stand. If you have the means of making amends, you have to take it. Your life might depend on it.

And that’s our Walking Dead Survival Rule Of The Week! Desperate times call for desperate measures, and a zombie apocalypse is the most desperate of times. Just how desperate of measures would you stoop to? Would you do something, even if it turned away your friends or family? Would you do something that might even disgust you?  What happens then? What do you do when you’ve gone too far? If you want to learn what to do so that you don’t have to go too far, 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!