Hey, welcome back to Story with Ryan Krauss. In this episode, we're examining the pilot of one of the more successful TV shows in recent memory

The Walking Dead, which follows the struggle of the survivors of a zombie apocalypse through

their devolution and subsequent evolution to follow.

Much like the premise of the show advertises, this is a narrative about people being ripped

apart, put back together again, even if changed or transformed, and surviving, or not.

And we come to these stories to ask ourselves, well I survive when they come from me.

Because even though you and I might not ever face a zombie apocalypse in what we call reality outside of the TV screen,

we will most certainly be hunted by monsters inside our heads, which manifest and subsequently

intersect with our plight to travel smoothly along the road of life, causing us to stop. But it's in these moments when we pull over at these intersections

that we have a choice. We can move forward through the problems,

killing the monsters, and even learning to live with their seemingly

never-ending attacks on our well-being, or we can turn and run.

So the right thing to do is always face them down. But we're afraid to move forward into the

unknown as we're not sure we have the necessary skills to thrive in that environment. We

stop the car at the green light as though it was perpetually

red. And the issue with that is that while our three-dimensional existence on Earth in this universe

suggests that our problems would just pass us by going the other way through the intersection, like a funeral procession, causing us no more than the hassle of a short weight, time occurs in an infinite loop, like a horizontal figure 8, or

infinity that renders a more accurate reality of the manner in which our problems come back around again.

It's a loop.

And so if you turn your back on a problem when it forms,

running the opposite direction,

you're literally setting up a head-on collision when you get back to that place.

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