Common Goal

I’m all about bonding when road trips come to mind. They are definitely times when the radio just doesn’t do, site-seeing is not enough, and entertaining oneself eventually becomes unappealing. Because bonding is an essential part of the long journey, Zombieland is what inspires me when road trips come to mind. The movie at its heart is a risky adventure that a group of people go through together so they could succeed and reach their goal. While the goal for the people in Zombieland is to survive (or maybe get a Twinkie), they definitely achieved a great deal of bonding and understanding of each other along the way.

Surely, there are those places where your friends would tell you that it’s the “scariest place to go to” and everybody would be frightened to even get near it. However, this is just the kind of thing a small group of people can go together and explore the mystery of the place. If I were to mirror it with a bit like Zombieland, I would bring along people who are merely my acquaintances. Then we would drive over to the so-called “haunted” place and we would walk together to explore the place—cross the river, climb over the woods—do anything other than just standing there so we could get a feel of the place. Our goal? Just to have fun and be proud of ourselves after we get through it. Our hidden goal? Bonding, because chances are, we would have to help each other to get across the river or to go up a hill. We might have to joke around to comfort ourselves or talk to just keep us busy thinking about something else other than anticipating something to pop out. Having a common goal really does pave the way to at least a great start in relationships.