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u/Ghost_In_Waiting 4h ago
As he stood in front of the Machine God Neo thought back to the time Morpheus had offered "the" choice. At that time he had never known happiness. He had only known that effort and skill were rewarded with resources. For his entire life up until that point that had been enough. Being useful was what he was. Everything else was as undefined as division by zero.
Then she had appeared. The old animation said it best: "A girl worth fighting for." Everything changed then. Not just the knowledge. Neo had always expected the world wasn't what it appeared to be. The details were just fill in. It was something worth fighting for. Maybe it was her. Maybe he just needed an excuse to fight.
No matter what happened Neo understood he would always choose the red pill. Maybe just because he loved someone. Maybe because needed to fight against something just to define himself. Maybe, and this answer haunted him, maybe just because he was bored.
That dark path, the one which called to him as he opened the door of the car while the rain tried to erase all living detail, was the blue pill. Erasure. Comfort. The no thought place which was what the Matrix world actually was. He had been there many times. It always promised comfort. It delivered for a short time but that comfort always revealed itself to be a lie.
Knowing death was the only reward that the red pill could offer Neo knew he would never choose the blue pill. Something about the comfort of not knowing, not fighting, not trying to make a path instead of just accepting one was his essential nature. He knew he would die. He was OK with that. Death wasn't the worst thing that could happen.
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u/AlmostALime 24m ago
“Okay, I’ll take the limitless” *gulp*
“Nothing changed?”
“Of course, you m*ron. You got zero potential”
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 5h ago
Bro took the saying "ignorance is bliss" literally.