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My Adaptation Of Rick's Failure To Grow Up

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I decided to do my adaptation of one of the few scenes where Rick is by himself, and turned it into a tale of a deranged voyeur who will unknowingly atone for his own mistakes. I chose to write in third person, because I find it is relatively easier for me to write a story when I don't have to talk from first person perspective. The idea of me causing a person to meet an untimely demise, then being forced to witness the atrocity, and being unable to alter the outcome, strikes fear into my very bones. I honestly can't see myself working with a group in order to survive a zombie apocalypse, because I don't have much patience for other people's shortcomings. Throughout my life, I have found myself in a lot of scenarios where the incompetence of others causes me to shut down and the plans we start to set in motion quickly dissolve. I can have a short fuse when it comes to making mistakes because I am a control freak and a perfectionist; I have a low tolerance for mediocrity, and it affects a lot of my personal relationships. The way that I started out the story actually mirrors a recurring insecurity I have towards being abandoned. The moment where I decide to kill my friend who had become a zombie actually made me choke up a bit because that friend is very dear to me. …show more content…

He was forced to geographically relocate when a better job opportunity in Redding, which he decided to pursue without having time to inform myself or any of his other friends of his choice; it took two years for us to get back in contact, and he has not met the same fate as the story version of him

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