The Red or the Blue pill?

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon

The red or the blue pill? It's a choice you subconsciously make every day. Ever sat at a bus(my example), in a class, at work, at a seminar, philosophizing of everyone mindlessly sleeping through every day? Ever looked around at the other faces there wondering how many thought the same thing?

As we progress through life there will be set borders around us, so many borders it doesn't make sense that we can keep track of them all. But we do(to a certain degree). We act and behave within the unwritten code of acceptable social behaviour. And even those that don't, have their own set of unwritten code, telling them how they should behave, who they should be, what box to fit in.

Is this how you want your life to run? Following the line numbly, mindlessly down a line of people that have been and people that will be. What if I was to offer you the choice of pills right now(metaphorically speaking of course, I don't deal) between the red and the blue pill as in Matrix.

The blue pill, and you stay in your dream. Live every day the same and by your routines, safe, silent and simple.

The red pill, and you wake up. You see the world and your existence in it as it "really"(reality is a manner of perspective) is and you get the power to change it any way that you wish.

It wouldn't surprise me if most would choose the blue pill. Safety is comforting, and simple is safe. The mind easily deals with simple, and falling into line of what is acceptable and what is expected is much easier as it doesn't require as much from you. You know who you are(right?) and that should be more than enough. Even if you would choose the blue pill I would suggest you to keep reading though.

But what if I was to put a post-it on your forehead, with the actual date, actual years, days, hours, minutes and seconds till your life was over. This isn't something humans like to think about, humans prefer the ignorance. But if you take a moment to think how you don't know how long you will actually be here, wouldn't you want to make every moment worth it? I'm not here saying you should live every moment like it's your last, because that sort of angst would make pretty much everyone insane. I'm saying you should try to see every day as a living person.

You are mortal, I am mortal, everyone around you are mortal. It doesn't get simpler than that. The challenge comes when we try to put this knowledge to use. What do I do with my mortality? I have to work to live, so that's a given. But would you live to work? With the whole vast world out and around you, would you spend your days in the office making more money than you need to buy more things you don't need?

Would you sit on your computer wasting hour after hour, day after day because of the imaginary status and achievements the internet is giving you?(Read, facebook application games, MMOs). I'm not saying you shouldn't play(naturally, avid gamer of both MMOs and Facebook Apps myself:p), I'm saying you shouldn't make it your reason of existence. You live, you breathe, you talk and you feel. Experience the world for the vastness it offers.

Everyone can aspire for positive change in their lives, and you do this by opening your eyes to the world around you.