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I just watched the movie The Matrix again. My eldest son asked me to rate the movie, as he always does, and a gave it a “10” (he said I was being to easy on it). I told him that I loved the metaphor of the movie - it speaks to me of all that we assume to be real in life and all our limitations that we accept as truth - everything that becomes our programming or our “operating system.”
A matrix is defined as “something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form.” Our beliefs are the matrix from which our relationships develop. Our thoughts are what makes them take form. I know a young co-worker who has the program “Men are jerks.” She says she doesn’t want them to be, they just are. She calls one guy she’s sleeping with, “Dirtbag.” Whenever she says it, I think about Pollyanna’s phrase, "When you look for the bad expecting it, you will find it."
The first step to changing the programming is to become conscious of what the program is. I recently needed to update my operating system on my old computer. The techie told me to back up what I wanted to save because the rest would be lost. This breakup has given me a chance to do the same in my real life. I get to choose what to save and what to purge so that I can become a more functional me.
A breakup is like a system crash - a huge loss but not life-threatening. The cool thing is we can take the time to choose what to create again. We can wipe our hard drive clean before we reboot and we can create new programming. We can see the limitations of our past life and decide to make new choices. Then we can reload.
Is it time to update your operating system? Can you let go of that which is obsolete and no longer working?
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