Over
a glass of Merlot she confessed: It never
occurred to me when I took that part time job all those years ago that I would
end up as the breadwinner of the family.
She
had envisioned something different for herself—a scheduled weekly facial rather
than a scheduled weekly checkbook massage.
An
economic downturn could not have been predicted in her forecast.
She
resented her circumstance.
And
what we learn from the AMC’s series The
Walking Dead is this: In a post-apocalyptic world, sometimes you must ram steel
through the skulls of zombies. Sometimes must leave the safety of your prison
to forage for food and medicine. Sometimes you must blow away human invaders with
a 12 gauge shot gun to protect your safe haven.
Because
as Hershel, the moral compass of the show reminds: We all have a job to do.
We
don’t always get to choose our sacrifice, we only get to choose what we
sacrifice for.
In
a zombie-filled world (or not)
sometimes you just have to do what you have to do.
Sometimes
you must step away from your own desires to see the greater good.
You
must forfeit your dreams and live in the now.
Because
everyone’s survival depends on it.
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