You Have A Choice: Will You Take The Blue or Red Pill?
Would you take the blue or the red pill?
In the Matrix, Neo had a choice -- continue this path of what's comfortable or find out the truth and be free. Blue or red.
I suppose when I quit drinking I was choosing freedom, right? Red pill.
Blue means numbing out. Blue means climate controlled. Blue means staying stuck but in my comfort zone.
It's not real. It's grey, it's murky, it's limiting.
Red means being present. It means digging deep.
Sometimes it means sitting in discomfort. But other times feel blissful, and beyond. Feeling present in nature, in parenting, and in love -- these are what dreams are made of, after all.
You don’t feel much of anything after taking the blue pill.
I choose the red pill. I choose freedom over numbing. And by choosing red, and knowing what I know now, I never want to go back and choose blue. Never. In the same way I'm sure Neo would never go back to the Matrix.
Because once you taste freedom, numbness feels like half-living. Two dimensional.
Unfulfilling.
Maybe choosing the blue pill would have been ok. You don't know what you don't know, right? Except I saw my father’s struggle in addiction. I saw the daily battle of the blue pill.
Knowing the truth... seeing the panoramic picture versus the 3:4? I want that.
I choose RED.
I choose freedom.
I choose real.