The Walking Dead, Survival Rule of the Week: Together, we’re stronger

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We need to put aside our differences and fight our common enemy. 

One of the coolest moments of this week’s episode of The Walking Dead was watching Negan and Ezekiel gets on the same page. While Ezekiel, understandably, still has not forgiven Negan for the deaths of many of his friends in the Kingdom, he knows that the Commonwealth is a far more pressing concern and that, while they may never be friends, they both want the same thing, and are far stronger working together than they would be working separately.

In a zombie apocalypse, you will inevitably come across people that you don’t like and who don’t like you. This is just human nature: Not everyone is going to get along. But, you will also come across groups that neither you nor the people who dislike you get along with, groups who may hold both of you in disdain or simply see you as obstacles to be destroyed.

Should you and your erstwhile enemy find yourself presented with a mutual threat, it may be time for the two of you to put aside your differences and recognize that you both face a larger threat that doesn’t care about your issues one way or the other, and would wipe out one of you just as soon as the other. If you can come to an agreement, you can pool your resources and your talents together to eliminate your shared enemy. Maybe, after working together to deal with such a problem, you may come to realize that your issues, even if they may be major to you, pale in comparison to the bigger threats that are out there in the apocalypse.