The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Best Of A Bad Situation

Things Could Always Be Worse In A World Filled With The Walking Dead.

Good and bad are, to some degree, a matter of perspective in a zombie apocalypse. What might look bad to someone on the outside may be a paradise for someone on the inside, compared to where they had been beforehand. A base or community you find yourself living in in the apocalypse may not be better than how you lived before the apocalypse, but compared to what your life would likely have been during the outbreak, it’s a million times better.

Think back to some of the situations Rick’s group found themselves in during The Walking Dead — Stuck on a walker-filled highway outside of Atlanta, taken captive by a community of cannibals, having to make a death march through half of eastern Virginia, being subjugated by a larger group of hostiles — all of them are things you could have happen to you in a zombie apocalypse. If you had a choice between living in a community that has some political flaws or being in any of the situations I just described, which would you take? Obviously, you wouldn’t take any of the awful nightmares Rick and company wound up in.

My point is you can’t expect too much from places you’re living in in a zombie apocalypse, and you should learn to appreciate what you do have, simple or unpleasant though it may be. It may not be the best thing in the world you could have, but in a zombie apocalypse, it could easily be much worse.