@ Panic and whoever else is 'listening'
I just put this to a friend of mine and she responded as follows:
You’re trapped in a pre-defined box and you don’t even know it cos you’re not aware of the box or the options you have outside of it. You therefore begin living in it. As for when it finally hits you, I don’t think many people experience that. Some think they do, only to find out that they’ve escaped one box but there’s another outer box.
She's got quite a good point, I figure it comes with any sort of growth. There's always more to be done, more to be achieved, more to be seen. But we won't know that until we know that, if you know what I mean. I'm thinking of it like an onion. If you were in the centre of the onion you'd only know what's around you. If the surface of the onion represents all that you can discover in that realm then there's probably a shit load for a little insect to get through. When that insect eventually breaks through to the next layer it'll get this burst of new found knowledge, but it won't know there's another one. It might be thinking "So I just broke through a layer, what I've found is super awesome, but there's a possibility that there's even more". But until it gets to break through the 'new layer', it will not know. I put new in inverted commas because just like the "f*** it" moment, where you realise that there's more out there, the new onion layer was always there. We just need to grow and learn to the point that we see it.
Even in this information age the shit don't come natural. Methinks it comes with maturity nahmean, you have to g(r)o(w) through some shit in order to see it. So it's a matter of time and experience for all.
MORPHEUS
We are trained in this world to
accept only what is rational and
logical. Have you ever wondered
why?
MORPHEUS
As children, we do not separate
the possible from the impossible
which is why the younger a mind is
the easier it is to free while a
mind like yours can be very
difficult.
NEO
Free from what?
MORPHEUS
From the Matrix.
MORPHEUS
Do you want to know what it is,
Neo?
MORPHEUS
It's that feeling you have had all
your life. That feeling that
something was wrong with the
world. You don't know what it is
but it's there, like a splinter in
your mind, driving you mad,
driving you to me. But what is
it?
MORPHEUS
The Matrix is everywhere, it's all
around us, here even in this room.
You can see it out your window, or
on your TELEVISION. You feel it
when you go to WORK, or go to
CHURCH or pay your TAXES. It is
the world that has been pulled
over your eyes to blind you from
the truth.
NEO
What truth?
MORPHEUS
That you are a slave, Neo. That
you, like everyone else, was born
into bondage...
... kept inside a prison that you
cannot smell, taste, or touch. A
prison for your mind.
MORPHEUS
Unfortunately, no one can be told
what the Matrix is. You have to
see it for yourself.
What ckufs up the most of us is the conditioning we go through in our education system.
They say education is the key to success so this shit is like a double edged sword.
With that said. VANILLA SKY is one great movie...Just a random thought.
