Blue pill.. red pill !!

There is a reason why I felt that the Matrix trilogy was such a path breaking movie series. Behind all the sci-fi, there is a simple philosophy.

Life is a series of blue pills and red pills. Blue pills let you lie in status quo. Reb pills show you what lies at the end of the rabit hole. At each turn, we make a choice of how or to where we wish to proceed. These choices define the positions we take and land up in life. We sometimes go long on pain and short on happiness.

The choices are not always simple to make. If life were just black and white, it would be easier to decipher its meaning, its intricacies. But white and black just form 2% of it all. The rest is an array of shades of grey. These choices are governed by a lot of factors – one being the greatest human strength and the greatest weakness – emotion. Logic, reason, sensibilities all come a distant second to emotion. Decisions made at the behest of tugs of emotion lie on somewhat hollow credentials.

Days when we look back, we sometimes wish we’d done things differently. We wish we’d been stronger at that moment and done what was right. We wish we’d taken the red pill.