Matrix Moment

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[Disclaimer]
This will make almost no sense if you haven't seen 'The Matrix'.

Weird realization:
I can't have Advil (which typically takes the form of a blue pill), and I instead can only take Tylenol (which is red). This means nothing, really, only that I take the same colour pills as Neo, and that I should, theoretically, get to leave the Matrix. The mere notion of that is completely irrational and insane, but it happened so I have to acknowledge it.

The interesting thing is that, immediately after I started writing this I thought: "If I keep choosing the red pill, why am I still here?" Which is insane, but I legitimately thought that for a few moments.

It's sometimes hard to tell if it's my imagination or an actual delusion. I read somewhere that doubting the legitimacy of your environment is a form of dissociation. This could simply be an overactive imagination, or something much more serious. I do have a history of believing that our world is fabricated. When I was in CAIP I thought that I was a robot. A guinea pig in an experiment to see how quickly you could break the human mind. Somehow that was easier to believe than a diagnosis of complex PTSD and bipolar disorder.

Sometimes I feel like it is just easier for me to believe in the Matrix. That way I can keep believing that nothing is real, and that nothing matters, and that I truly have no control. Because again, that is somehow easier than accepting my actual situation.

Regardless of everything that I have have just written, I still find myself looking for an answer.
"...why am I still here?"

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