Decisions in an apocalyptic world.

To go left or right, to have chocolate or vanilla? Each day we make hundreds of different decisions, and whilst some are considered less important than others, all of them shape our lives in ways that we cannot always tell.

I have a book called Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? which I like to pick up every couple of weeks and give a quick flick through.

Thanks to one of my favorite books, World War Z, I consider myself one of the three best people that I can think of who would survive a zombie attack. One of the others is my friend Stu, who has survived a zombie attack in Leeds, and the other is my friend Dom, who is in the World War Z movie, and he can run bloody fast (that's how he got the part).

Apart from my diabetes, I think I would be pretty good in a zombie situation. Many people that I know would probably consider that I could be a part of the outbreak so as long as I survived the first 24 hours, I think I could do it.

That is what made me want to get the book.

I have not survived once!

The book is very good and highly enjoyable. The only problem is that in performing the actions in the book, I always tend to do the options that I would do in that situation. For instance, the book gives you the choice to just try and get out of dodge, or go back to my apartment first. I would always go back as you should never rush escaping a city, especially as that is what most others would do.

The big problem with the book is that whatever decision you make, no matter how small the events that occur after that decision remove the importance of whatever decision you have made. I seem to have survived the longest when I have gotten on an underground train.
If zombies are rising up then there would be no way I would get inside a cramped underground metal tube. Thats just crazy. However, the train crashes and you seem to be way better off.

For this reason, this book annoys me a little because there seems to be no way that a logical thinker can survive, it really is just a scenario where you will survive by pure luck. I grant you that in many situations in life, that can be enough, but 9 times out of 10, the person who is prepared will survive.

Oh well, lets see how far I can get this time........