Exiting the Matrix?

Ever feel like you need to exit the Matrix? What does that even mean? Less than a year ago, I embarked on an interesting journey in trying to figure all this out and recently stumbled upon a life-changing discovery; an AHA period that is still unraveling for me. Everything I own (my car, education, job, home, clothes, goals even, my body, relationships and social life) are directly a reflection and manifestation of my mind (my very own thoughts). Talk about the utmost, extreme sense of personal accountability. What does this truth have anything to do with the Matrix? Let me explain in simplest ways.

Matrix consists of what we are modeled, instructed, groomed and prodded to do within the confines of our society and cultural realm. We tend to navigate within the lines of the status quo, barely, if ever, brimming outside the conventional, routinized ways of life (finish school, get a job, have a family, etc.). Walking or running on a seemingly perpetual treadmill for majority of us, we become consistently stressed, constrained, stretched thin physically, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually and financially. Reality is, most of us never find our life’s true callings due to the mechanized, habituated and recycled ways of living, hardly aligning ourselves with the inner Truth and Harmony that exists within each of us, let alone recognize, acknowledge, embrace and explore our inner truths.

After 38 years living a life that my intuition felt vastly disconnected with, I finally made that mind-shattering decision: to take my shoes off and step outside the Matrix. My intuition, with exhilaration and excitement, says to me “Ah Janelle…alas…you decided to take that first step. Now you have just tasted what it feels like to be truly alive and free. You are one step closer to freedom, one step away from being who you truly are meant to be and live a life aligned with your Truth; the universal Truth”.

I have no idea what I got myself into, but I’m so ready (beyond ready). Perhaps I’ve been ready for some time now, it just took a little bit more time to finally tap into my own sense of strength, courage and, honestly, I am just sick of living a life I have been living up to this point.