Today Sam was resting by the river bank again, he was lying on the ground and looking at the sky. He looked with interest at the clouds and their various forms.

The cat regularly tried to bully Sam, attacked from an "ambush" hit Sam in the face and ran away again. But Sam didn't pay attention to it.

Winter was approaching so the heat began to subside, the weather was excellent and there were several months of vacation ahead.

You could do almost nothing and all day long only to eat, shit and sleep, a real paradise in Sam's opinion.

Sam believed that life is completely meaningless, from one generation to the next we are hammered into our heads that we need to study, work, start a family, achieve success in life, and so on.

And there really was nothing wrong with these things, rather it really makes sense. But there are still some nuances.

For example, each person considers himself free, he believes that he makes decisions himself, decides for himself what is good and what is bad, what he needs and what not.

But is he?

What is personality? The answer is simple, personality is shaped by our environment. Starting from kindergarten, our parents, country, TV and so on.

That means, we are a kind of product of "modern society". And we are prepared in a certain way.

One popular example is that a person sincerely believes in starting a family and finding a job. In fact, this is their goal in life.

But is it really their own desires? Is this really the purpose and meaning of people's lives?

The simple answer is no.

Humans, though reasonable, but still animals. Society and environment from our very birth "processes" us from one generation to another.

As a result, after growing up and cooking in this society for years, no matter how self-consciousness the person is. They will still become like everyone else around.

Of course, there will be different nuances, people will still be different. But the foundation will be common and unchanging. The foundation will consist of the values ​​that society has instilled in us.

Sam believed that this is how everything was arranged for the sake of crowd control. And again, that made sense. Everything is so to protect those who control us, and ourselves.

But even if there is nothing wrong with this, it is important at least to understand why everything is the way it is, and not otherwise. In essence, this is self-consciousness.

For example, Sam understood that if society instilled in him the opinion that the sky is red and the earth is blue, he would sincerely believe in it, and would never know the truth.

Somewhat reminiscent of a witch hunt in ancient times. After all, then it was believed that burning a witch was completely normal. Normal as to help a grandmother cross the road in modern society. An honorable and noble cause.

There is no truth as such. The meaning of life does not exist. It would seem that everyone determines for himself the truth and meaning of life.

But how to do this if from the very birth we were all "processed" like some kind of zombie? You may think that info you get from your surroundings is only for your own consideration... naive.

A person tries to succeed in school, then at work, starts a family, he has a sea of ​​obligations and things that are worth worrying about.

In most cases, a person has no reason or time to think that life has no meaning. All this works exactly so that people always have a purpose in life.

People are made in such a way that they cannot be happy.

You can achieve something and be happy for a while, but in the end, a person will still find a reason to be dissatisfied with something, and again want more.

At a certain point in his life, Sam dropped his hands and began to reason in a similar way, justifying his laziness, lack of initiative, unwillingness to achieve anything in life.

What is the point? Sam believed that there was no point, it was easier to enjoy life without a goal, to avoid any stress or inconvenience and calmly wait for death.

In principle, he still adhered to this point of view, he admitted to himself that he killed and became stronger not only for the sake of survival, but because he liked it.

Of course, provided that the opponents are weaker, otherwise it is too stressful and dangerous.

And now he was thinking what to do next, even if he was not too smart, but some things were obvious.

This sword was gradually getting stronger, and Sam suspected that the distance at which he would feel other swords would increase. He did not know how many of them there were in the world.

This means that there were only two options, either he is trying his best to quickly find and absorb other swords to become even stronger, or he would have to throw the sword and sit in his hole trying not to be seen by other sword owners.

Of course, now the radius of the search for the sword is only about 100 kilometres, this is too small, and in Sam's opinion it would be inappropriate to travel the world in search of other sword users, at least for now.

But soon he will have to make a choice, in fact, for any normal person who has goals and aspirations, this is not even a choice, Sam was sure that they would try to become stronger looking for other owners.

Sam, on the other hand, made a completely opposite choice to himself, but after thinking a little, he decided that there was no point in getting rid of the sword ahead of time.

He already knew that it was impossible to grab another similar sword, so if sooner or later he meets a strong opponent, he can simply throw the sword in their direction and run away.

His opponent will receive nothing but particles from killing him, and only a complete idiot will chase after Sam, leaving the sword on the ground. Well, absorption takes time, albeit a couple of minutes, which means Sam will have time to run far away and he will no longer be found.

Having decided this difficult question for himself, Sam was pleased with himself.

Jane came up to him.

- The women came back ... it turns out that the camp of our city was destroyed a couple of days ago, they met some people who escaped from the camp, they said that a horde of zombies attacked the camp, presumably led by Z1. The walls were demolished by two huge zombies, most likely L2.

Yesterday Sam beheaded two women in front of everyone, right in the courtyard of the mansion, without saying a word, the rest were scared and decided to leave for the camp today, but now apparently it's not destiny.

- Oh, what a tragedy - Sam sighed sensually - I am very sorry for these people, life is really dangerous and difficult.

Jane rolled her eyes and continued:

- The women have returned and want to continue to stay here, they also took some people from the camp with them.

Sam - Jane, you're the boss, I just passed by and decided to go fishing a little, in general, here you decide what to do, I would most likely give the people from the camp to someone else for experience, I think you yourself guessed.

- By the way, I kind of have a vacation, so I was hoping that you would teach me swordplay and hand-to-hand combat, Ashley told me that you are a fan of this, and I always fought like some kind of savage, I think your advice would be useful to me.

Jane - Of course, Ashley has been training with me for a long time, so she can teach you a lot too.