Escape the Matrix and Embrace the Consciousness

Dolly Garland
The Startup
Published in
4 min readJun 13, 2019

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Matrix movie still

Do you accept “reality” as gospel? Are you one of those people who says, “This is how the real world works,” and accepts the status-quo? Have you ever wondered why the words “real world” are used almost always in a negative context?

Since you are reading this I’ll assume that you are not entirely satisfied with how things are. So let’s take the red pill, and go down the rabbit hole.

You are ready to escape the Matrix, or at the very least, you’ve become conscious that to one extent or another, you are trapped in one.

What is the Matrix?

You take the blue pill — the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill — you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

– Morpheus

To apply it to this situation, the matrix many of us are trapped in is the “reality” offered to us by society. We are expected pretty much since we are born, to behave in a certain way, to work for certain things, to get good grades, to get a good job, to have insurance of all kinds, to worry about pension, to raise kids and put them through the same motions as…

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Dolly Garland
The Startup

I write to connect the dots for myself and hope it helps others. An eternal optimist. Founder of Kaizen Journaling.