As Neo says in The Matrix Reloaded, the problem really is choice. At every instant, as we go by our lives, we make a choice. "Its time to get up" or "Just a few minutes more"...Coffee or tea...Wear jeans or shorts.... But ever so often, we come face to face with a potentially life-changing choice. What do we do then?
I have always had the life-changing kind of choices made for me by circumstances. One of the potential choices usually just dropped out of contention and I was left with a clear path. Maybe it was just escapism on my part to let the choice drop out. Or maybe, I had already made up my mind subconsciously and thus, let the rejected option drop out. Either way, I don't regret any of the "decisions" (well...almost). But, recently I was faced with an important choice.
"There are two doors. The door to your right leads both to The Source and salvation of Zion. The door to your left leads back to the Matrix....The problem is choice". -Architect, The Matrix Reloaded.
Neither door was perfect in its promise but both opened equally wide. While one lead to a tough path that went through lot of new places, the smooth door lead to the comparatively simpler path in the backyard but well-made.I made the choice to take the door onto the tough path to the Matrix.
"Hope...It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness" -Architect, The Matrix Reloaded.
Having gone through this, I wonder how are we able to decide at all when we can never be sure of what the future holds for us. It is always a risk, a law of probability. Is there really anything called a "safe-choice"? Or is it just SAFER? But, I just contradicted this by choosing the riskier path. Is it just me being dumb?
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing." - Leo F. Buscaglia (Not from The Matrix trilogy!)
"As you adequately put, the problem is choice". Architect, The Matrix Reloaded.
Or ..... its just an illusion. The Grand Unified Theory of Everything predicts exactly what your life is like. So you don't really have a choice as, in this universe, you couldn't have ever chosen that which you didn't choose.
"....You've already made your choice. You are here to understand it" - Oracle, The Matrix Reloaded.
P.S. : Something related to this....
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/lang/eng/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_of_our_own_decisions.html
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It feels like most people have fallen into this rut of just existing...not really living! 'Going with the flow' seems so counter intuitive to being alive and having the freedom to make choices! I sortta do agree with the "you couldn't have ever chosen that which you didn't choose". Kindda scary isn't it. But I think I'm equally terrified of actually making a choice too...
Mr. Anderson... surprised to see me?
Isnt it paradoxical?
If every choice is already made for you, isnt that your destiny?
If its your destiny, then do you really have any say in what you are gonna choose?
If you do have a true choice, is it your destiny?
Something related to this....
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/lang/eng/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_of_our_own_decisions.html
never thought i would come across a post peppered with comments from the matrix of all movies!!!!...the matrix?
on a different note having a choice is what makes things interesting...makes life a multidimensional existence...and not like that of a dung beetle and wake up in the morning eat dung and collect even more dung balls..then go to sleep.....and on and on and on
@rabid -
I totally agree choices add zing to life. The question I was wondering about whether do we really MAKE choices or is it all an illusion.
Regarding the quotes, the situation I was in at that time of this post just felt very close to what happens in the Matrix movies...so...
You sound just like me in this post :)
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