Dark Knight of the Soul to The Matrix 25th Anniversary Screening
โHow about I give you the finger? And you give me my phone call.โ I donโt normally throw up the finger in photos, but only to make that small reference in this instance. Itโs a cool line in an iconic scene. Shortly before I had my awakening and realized I was Chosen just a little less than a year ago, I think spirit really drew me back to rewatching this film. I didnโt know why, but I was obsessed, addicted with rewatching this movie everyday for no inexplicable reason other than Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne are amazing actors (John Wick?) and Iโm a heavy sci-fi fan. My life then was a hamster wheel, stuck in a toxic and evil 9-5, living with a physical and emotionally abusive narcissistic parent who most of my income went to, co-dependent on marijuana to get through each day and night as my undealt trauma and depression worsened into further self-apathy, and so far strayed away from my God-given creative hobbies - writing and illustrating. Despite being Christian all my life, now classifying myself as a Spiritual Christian, I was borderline NIHILISTIC. I felt and behaved like a lost soul despite knowing what my God-given gifts were and having direction in life because of it. Regardless, I became a walking epitome of that Doomer meme with the guy wearing a black beanie and a cig always in his mouth. This was my Dark Knight of the Soul. To be honest, I donโt even think Iโm fully out of it yet. Although a lot of people and places were purged out of my life last year, including the abusive narc, I find myself at another toxic 9-5 and currently involved in another cycle of workplace bullying and overall unempathy considering my struggling mental health. At my last workplace, I severely let go of myself as my self-apathy reached unexpected and unimaginable heights, 20+ years of being continuously traumatized as a kid and abused into adulthood behind closed doors in the making. To be frank, no one from home nor my so-called โfriendsโ at work who resorted to laughing at me couldnโt care less if I lived or died, and neither did I. I honestly believed my life was written to be a tragedy in the book of life, someone who most saw as a meek and kind-natured person filled with internal happiness and chasing big dreamsโฆ having all that end by being laughed at to death for trauma unseen, and my current circumstances were a consequence of me living for too long. My intuition told me โThis would be all over soon,โ and I interpreted that as death as I constantly felt dread follow me everywhere I went. I didnโt care for the current day nor the next as I believed death would take me out before the next day or even the next hour would arrive, but instead I was saved just in time by God. Iโm glad to say my thoughts no longer align with my old thoughts of last year and will never be. Realizing I was Chosen gave me lots of closure for why my so-called โsupportive and loving motherโ was constantly triggered into abusing me up into adulthood and psychologically torturing me for a period of time when I was 8-11, and it explained why I was so drawn to rewatching The Matrix. That movie was literally made for Chosen Ones. Iโm Neo. Weโre all literally Neo. We have agents in our lives. We felt there was something wrong with the world, decided to take the red pill, and now we woke up. Itโs funny because I so badly wanted to just reach into the screen and grab that red pill.