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09/10/10(Fri)19:34 No.1117348I
was reading the Road (possibly spoilers, I guess) and at the part when
they got to the bunker where they had all the food and everything they
needed to survive for a while, I started to think, would they get bored,
and purposely take the dangerous route? They had spent the entire book
moving, heading south, trying to survive, but always moving. They'd find
decent shelter and maybe stay there a few days at most, but they could
never stay long.
But then they stumble across this bunker (like
the type people made in case of a nuclear attack), they could live there
for months, it had tons of food, and all the supplies they'd ever need.
It'd be possible to hide the entrance with a bit of work, they had
finally found what they were looking for the whole book, a better place
where they could survive easily. But what would they do? Why would they
stay? What was the point of surviving if they had nothing to do the
whole time, they had their survival handed to them, when for the past 3
years they've had to spent every waking minute working for it. Could
they just settle down? I'm not saying it like how it's sometimes hard
for a soldier to ease back into civil life, just would it be possible
for them to live in this world just day by day, with nothing to do.
Their days would consist of sitting in the bunker, passing the time.
They weren't completely in the clear, they couldn't spend much time
outside lest somebody happens on their hideout. So they'd have to spent
the majority of their time inside the bunker. Would they do it? Or would
they decide to leave, go back in the dangerous world, but giving their
life a false-purpose again? Before they just aimlessly walked south, to
escape the cold winter, yeah, but they had no plans for what to do once
they reached a safe place. And they did, but they still moved on.
1/2, made the post a bit too long. |