Why I want to become a ZOMBIE (and you should too)

Uzair Haider
The Haven
Published in
3 min readFeb 11, 2023

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Photo by Zorik D on Unsplash

I recently started watching The Last of Us and I loved the zombies in it. First of all the plot of the show itself is a fantasy of mine where humans are having a hard time. That is amazing in itself but the idea of fungus taking the control of the human mind is absolutely amazing and it just might be what happened to Vladimir Putin.

Being a zombie is cool and let me point out to you how exactly:

  1. No stress at all:

People want to be Joel from the series. He has a reputation as this cool guy who kills people to survive but what people don’t realize is being Joel is extremely stressful. Joel has to figure out what he’s going to eat at lunch if there will be one for the day. Joel has to live days without showers and work day and night shifts to live a substandard life.

On the other hand, A zombie doesn't give a shit about showering or working. Well, when it comes to showering, a lot of my friends can fall into the category of zombies but being a zombie is stress-free. A zombie doesn't have to decide what it will do after college or why his father disappeared out of nowhere when he was two. A zombie doesn’t have to pay rent for an apartment that has leakage and walls that are depleting each year. A zombie sleeps most of the day and bites the flesh of other people on command. The dream…

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Uzair Haider
The Haven

Stand up comedian and a commentator of an ongoing match that is life. Freelance work: uzairihaider@gmail.com instagram: uzairiwrites