The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Plan, Plan, Plan

The Walking Dead episode 1117

Things change. Sometimes your plans should change too. 

After managing to take out a couple of squads of Commonwealth troopers and reuniting with Aaron, Father Gabriel, and Annie, Daryl and Maggie had taken the team down through a storm sewer in hopes of eluding their pursuers. However, after seeing how relatively confined and narrow the sewer was, Maggie (I think) commented on how convenient it would be to fight the troopers in such small confines, where their numbers wouldn’t avail them so well. After a few shots from Father Gabriel, the team got what they wanted.

I mentioned earlier that, sometimes, things happen (Whether in a zombie apocalypse or not) that you didn’t plan for. Now, I said that was a perfectly good reason to have backup plans in your back pocket, and I still believe that, however, if you see an advantage in your new circumstances, it might be equally effective to rework plans to suit those advantages.

In fact, if you have the ability to do it, it might be even more advantageous to develop new plans based on the new information/circumstances you find yourself in rather than trying to apply more generalized plans to a potentially chaotic situation. If you can think of ways to utilize your situation to your advantage, as opposed to ignoring or wasting them in executing a secondary plan, then, short of it being excessively dangerous or potentially dangerous in the long term, it might be your best course of action.

This relies on your ability to do that, of course. Not everyone can think of plans quickly in the face of changes going on around them, and if this isn’t your strong suit, you might be better served avoiding trying it. In these kinds of circumstances, you run the risk of drifting from “thinking on your feet” to “winging it” territory, where, rather than strategizing based on the situation, you’re just reacting and, largely, hoping that things just work out.

Things are never going to go exactly as planned. Sometimes, this won’t affect your plans. Other times, it will. In that case, if you can, use the change in the situation to your advantage and turn things around in your favor.