The high school paper that changed my life in 2010.

My classmates have taken a great tragedy and have turned it into a modern day conception of a Zombie Outbreak.

Saturday, April 26, 1986 there was a protocol breach at the nuclear power plant of Chernobyl Ukraine. Resulting in radiation poisoning, sickness, and death. Many species had lost their lives. Leaving mutated creatures and human beings. None of which were zombies whom “wanted to consume flesh.” But since the topic of a historical event has turned into Zombie mutation, allow me to share my own theories about life and what I believe a real “zombie is”.

We all walk with invisible tattoos known as labels. This comes with so much more than just the typical harsh name-calling.

The government has been separated into two parties that which of both carry a label: Democrat and republican. The minute someone admits which party they support it’s all about judgement and winning the best next argument about the current president in office. If there wasn’t a label to these parties and a certain image that these parties hold, would we be in such a controversial state? If observation was strictly the stipulation to election and legislation, would we all be so consumed in this contest of intransigence?

With these labels, there comes a certain obligation to have an immediate response or immediate defense mechanism when answering a simple question.

The world has become very systemically dysfunctional due to these labels we all carry on our skin. Though invisible , it burns through our flesh like radiation. Why is there a need to embellish and submit? Why feel obligated?

This corruption goes much deeper than the government. As spoken by William

Shakespeare: “what’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

We label ourselves, we label others. I will be labeled after a submit this paper for my deviation and personal opinions of society’s destruction; and I will have yet another invisible tattoo to carry around. These labels… are the mutations to the radiation. And every other student will probably be labeled for the way they perceived this assignment.

Technology is a poison all of it’s own. Missing life to be subjected to propaganda and relentless advertisement for how life should be lived. In fact, you could take technology as the location of Chernobyl as an analogy. In my opinion, it contributes to most of the labels given to adolescents due to the Rumors that float around social media.

You see, we all do the same thing. We all

Think the same way even though we say we don’t. We have an obligation to constantly contest with our peers and our mentors. We have a tendency to label, and always a tendency to rebel. We seek out the next best label and all claim we are different when we are all in fact suffering through the same illness called life.

We are all ill. We are all confined. We are all subjected to life in different ways but come to the same conclusion one way or another. We are all learning and we are all growing. With a new tattoo added each day, we are molded into the people we will be. We are the definition of dysfunction. We are all walking with a Horde and seeking out the next meal (the next move in life).

So I do suppose that my class mates may have been on to something. But I don’t say this because of the Ukraine and the events that took place.

I say this because there are Zombies.

For we are all zombies…

without a cure.

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