Would you kill yourself if you were
in the position as the dad and the boy?
Hell no. I’ve been preparing for an apocalypse all my life.
I’d grab my bow and head out to try and survive in the new world. Okay that’s a
bit ambitious…but I’d probably be too curious to kill myself. Despite the
hardships, I’d want to keep walking on the road, in hopes of finding something
better. Anything that would remotely resembled my safe old world, or a part of
the new world that’s better than the old one was. I think that’s the force that
keeps our two characters going. The burden of “carrying the fire” and being
some of the only “good guys” left is their motivation for living. They walk in order to be a
part of the new world that’s still sane.
They can do it, but I may not be
able to. I am not a patient person, I don’t like struggling, and I might give
up before I found what I was looking for. The world the father and son are
living in is dull. It’s not an exciting place where there are shootouts and showdowns
and every moment is spent fighting off some evil force. It’s boring. They’re
cold and hungry all the time. Everything around them is grey. That’s not a
life. In that case maybe I’d kill myself just for something else. I might do it
just to begin a new adventure into the afterlife.
