Plug me into the matrix

“The real world. Ha, what a joke.

You know what real is? I'll tell

you what real is.

Real is just another four-letter word.”

Lost In the maze of real, day by day I seek an opening .Living in the hope that Someday , somewhere I would be free of these walls of restraint , of circumstances , of the mundane .

Reality, what is it after all? Everyday events happening around us as we perceive it? If I quote Morpheus , “reality is just electrical impulses received by brain” .

If its raining , I will get drenched if I go out , might catch a cold , might get a headache . Now the pain that my headache will give me will be very much real. It’s just not my perception. The cold that I will catch will also be real. The rains will be real. The suffering will be real. Its real and we can do nothing to change it. Can we? Can we stop the rains from falling? Of course not. We might just get drenched thinking this was bound to happen; we might stop till the rain passes. But we cannot alter the real.

Was just an example, to show we have absolutely no control on the real events that occur? All we can do is find a workaround. Well, if its raining and you are cooped up in your cubicle, staring at your monitor, your ears encased in headphones, shutting out sights and sounds from outside, oblivious to the real world, you might not even realize that it was raining .

You were just not aware of the real, but does that make your world less real? Your monitor and headphones were just as real as the rains. But you didn’t even perceive that it was raining.

Now isn’t it a great thing, if you are lost in something, you don’t perceive the real. You need not catch a cold now, need not get a headache, need not suffer at all. All because you were in a different world.

Wow, isn’t that like matrix? Matrix - What is matrix after all? As per the movie, “It’s a virtual blind pulled over people’s eyes to hide the reality”. The crude reality that, there was no sun, the earth was not livable; the humans were being bred in captivity and all of the other unbearable truths of the day and age.

Truth, a powerful word. I had always believed that come what may we should always speak the truth. Even if it means hurting someone, in the long run it would always be good. Was a matter of principle for me. I used to take great pride in saying that I always speak the truth and expect the same from others.

But did I really expect the same? Yes, indeed. Without realizing that some truths are better left unsaid. Some truths can be so harsh; they can literally stop your breath. So crude, that they can change the direction of your life. They can hurt like hell.

Well, reality, truth, hurt, pain. Why do we need those? At all? Can’t we let those exist in the background and pull a blind on our eyes, just like matrix? So that we see a better today, we can smile more, we can hope for a different tomorrow. See life as we want to.

Can we not live in the matrix of our own creation to obviate the ugly truth, the harsh reality and just believe that things are OK, people are good, everything works by rules, good deeds get good result, good people do not get punished and other such feel good things?

Why, why why? Why Mr. Anderson? Why does life have to be real? Why Can’t we not take the blue pill and continue to live in a dream? I don’t want to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. I already know it. And even after knowing it I want to continue with the self created mirage of my life.
Why do I need to face ugliness each day, when in my matrix life can be beautiful?

After all, as per Lord Krishna, if everything we see, feel, perceive is part of “Maya” created by the ultimate power, why does the Maya have to be ugly? Can’t it be divinely beautiful?

I want to live in that world of Maya , of matrix , where we don’t face the harsh truth , I can live in ignorance , ignorance from the facts of life , ignorance from tragedies , from pain , from the harsh realities of the everyday life .

Ignorance is bliss, after all.