[dropcap2 variation=”coffee”]H[/dropcap2]alloween is almost here. Zombies seem pretty popular. Let’s talk about them.
I’m dead serious.
Ha.
Zombie stuff is all over bookstores, video games, websites, and commercials. In terms of movies and series, we’ve had The Walking Dead, Warm Bodies, and World War Z. And then there’s my personal favorite (the title, that is) Zombie Apocalypse.
All of these have common themes:
- Zombies taking over.
- Dead people walking around as something less than human.
- The walking dead devouring everything in their path.
I’ve got some news. The zombie apocalypse is upon us. It’s going on right now. In fact, it’s been going on for a very long time.
The zombies are us.
We walk and talk, but many are dead inside. Some of us live out that death daily, wandering mindlessly through our existence.
Others live as life-size cut-outs. We stand, smile, and strike a pose. It looks like us, but we’re not really there. We’re just like cardboard. We’re faking it – stiff, lifeless, and going nowhere.
We’re hungry but never satisfied. And that hunger causes us to do ugly and terrible things. We even resort to devouring one another. We rip each other apart with a practiced ease that is downright shocking.
The walking dead are real. There’s some zombie in all of us.
How do we deal with our zombie-self? Tune in on the day before Halloween for the answer.
