What if we are all living in a dream. What if life as we have come to know in our minds is not reality. What if in reality, we do not look the way we are seeing ourselves now. What if in reality, you are an idiot sitting on a wheelchair not seeing anyone or anything in front of you, and this world that you are living in is all but a world that either you or someone else created in your mind. What if this exact life that you are living right now is not real. And at a certain point you had a chance to wake up. An uncanny event that you had a glimpse of reality and you were given a choice…

 

By taking the blue pill, you will wake up in the world you have been living in without any remembrance of the glimpse. Life will continue as you are living it at this very moment, as you have been living it in your mind. And by taking the red pill, you will be cured and you would live a normal, animate life in the “Real World,” which is entirely different from the life you thought was real. In the Real World, you have the best things life could offer and there will be no traces of the life that you have known. The very life that you are living right now, all the people you hold so dear, the mishaps, the leaps, and the great escapes will all just be random unfamiliar dreams. Which one would you take?

 

That was the scenario thrown at me. Impulsively, I wanted to wake up and come to terms with reality, I wanted to be cured but then a part of me felt like taking the blue pill- and that whole entire length was exactly my answer. I threw back the question and he answered, “The blue pill.” Dumbfounded, I barely heard him explain his choice… “I am happy with my life as it is no matter the roller coaster ride. I am happy with what I have right now.”

 

Most of the time, I simply lack the sense of seeing what’s right in front of me because I question life so much. What is the whole point of living life when it simply is not as simple and as great as I thought it would be? The answer have always been that, life is what you make it and happiness is when you take time to appreciate the choices you have made and being grateful that you have lived your life as you have made it. We don’t always make the right choices, regret is inevitable, but it’s how we keep moving on that really matters, making life more interesting.