Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Welcome to the real world Neo.

I was six weeks into my summer project and things were not looking good. I had not done any awesome work, nor had i had a good time or enjoyed myself. I had basically managed to work really hard at nothing. I was feeling pretty frustrated and i don't know what got into me but i decided to give some friends a call.
"The orange number you have tried is currently unavailable. Please try later" After hearing that from most of my good friends i was beginning to get desperate. So i started alphabetically in the phone book. Before i knew it i was down to M.
Morpheus 9819871673.
Call. Trrrrt trrrrrrt. Trrrrrrt trrrrrrt.
"Hello. Morpheus here"
"Hi, this is beedi. We met the other day at the beach"
"Yes Neo, tell me."
"This is beedi, not Neo."
"I know who you are. The fact that you have called me is because you realize Neo, that your entire life has been a dream. A sad one but still a dream. You spend most of your life imagining yourself to be a stronger, faster, richer more powerful than you actually are. In essence you think that you are Neo and that this is the Matrix and you can change the rules.
Till now you have been able to avoid reality by creating alter egos. The sum total of your alter egos has now come full circle. Your own alter egos now realize that they were just sad creations of a pathetic imagination and refuse to bend the rules of the Matrix. In essence all your alter egos seem to be converging again in you. You have desperately been trying to create more a more images but each successive one deteriorates faster that the previous. The time has come for you to wake up.

You are a 24 year old obese, reasonably intelligent, boring, ugly , self-conscious loser. The year is 2005. The earth is still as it is. Capitalism and materialism are still the prime principles of the current world order. The reason you don't have a girlfriend is because you have nothing any sane girl would ever want....Wake up. Wake up to reality."

"But Morpheus what about all my great dreams of changing the world and ..."

"Most people give up that dream as a part of 'growing up' few ever live with that dream. And few among them get to see it fulfilled. Welcome to the real world Neo. Its not great but atleast its REAL"

2 Comments:

Blogger ledsuki said...

Now that ure Neo........pass me a pill as well!!!

2:38 PM  
Blogger therealbeedi said...

Remember Neo was in the Matrix before he took the pill. Hence the pill itself is part of the matrix and a part of your imagination. But you seemed to have lost the metaphor

4:44 AM  

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