Post by ChicagoRedwing2b on Nov 6, 2003 16:11:45 GMT -5
By now many people know about the film Matrix, Matrix Reloaded, and the final Matric Revolutions.
Parents of children not 16 years old or older will not want to let their children see this film without them present, but I want to share with you all something very important about these films and how it connects with each one of us dealing with ADD and ADHD in our lives.
I have been waiting for someone to tell this story for a long time, and even had dreams that I would be the one telling this epic story about the Matrix.
Since I can remember I have alwasy felt different, out of place, and wrong about the world and life around me.
Without getting to deep into this, I will say that most all ADD and ADHD people feel sort of this way.
The films entertain the idea that our world is not real, but rather a form of control in place to keep humans happy as a source of energy to an exsistence of machines, in which humans themselves created, and lost their control.
The idea behind the plot is that humans have the abillity to make a choice. That choice no matter how big or small, creates a sence of freedom and free will inside each and everyone of us.
We are free to chose to get up in the morning and go to school, or work, or to not. The plot tells us that we each can not see past our own choices that which we do not understand.
The ideas presented create a level of thinking and thought process that has never been seen before in film. The Matrix films asks the questions in which the answers only involve more questions.
I have always felt this difference, this single concept that I exsist because i chose to exsist. I was born because I chose to breath and live at that moment in my life.
These films make us question our own exsistence, reality, and life. I have started to fully understand just who I am in this life, more now that I have started to understand some very important things about life.
Anyone take Phylosiphy in high school or college?
Anyone every have a teacher tell you to answer the following question for your exam or paper in that class?
"Why?"
Simple question, infinatly impossible to answer with anything but the following:
"Why Not!"
I got a perfect grade for that two word answer to which several others wrote extensive papers in great lengths to answer the simple question, and all they had to write was the two words:
"Why Not!"
I have ADD, alwasy have, but my reality was shaken only 1 year ago this month with the diagnosis of ADD.
I could not see past the choice I had made long ago to hide within myself and deny myself a life because I was worthless to others.
I could not see past that choice because even though I had made that choice freely, I did not understand it, and the question "Why?"
Today I can say I finally see past that choice, and I understand Why? I made it freely. I am ADD, I am different, and I like who I am.
Today is an importnat day for me as I realize just how much abillity I truely have in this life, and beyond.
We each deal with our ADD and ADHD differently. Those around us deal with it in their own way as well.
We are free to chose as we see fit, and no one can make that choice for you. No one can trick you into making that choice, and you must remember that your choice is only yours, and you will make it freely of your own will.
I am ADD, always have been, and always will be. I have my own personal confictions, failures, fears, dreams, desires, and doubts, but I also have the abillity to chose.
I have the abillity to chose freely on my own in this life.
My path is chosen by me and no other.
Anyone who has not seen the films should consider them, if you have ever felt something inside was not quite right with you or the world around you. It will entertain your imagination, that which all ADD'ers know and love because it has no limits, no rules, and no boundries of what is possible.
A simple message was communicated through these films, and I wanted to share it with you all, as I thought it fit each one of us very well.
"Why Not!"
and
"Because I chose to...."
Parents of children not 16 years old or older will not want to let their children see this film without them present, but I want to share with you all something very important about these films and how it connects with each one of us dealing with ADD and ADHD in our lives.
I have been waiting for someone to tell this story for a long time, and even had dreams that I would be the one telling this epic story about the Matrix.
Since I can remember I have alwasy felt different, out of place, and wrong about the world and life around me.
Without getting to deep into this, I will say that most all ADD and ADHD people feel sort of this way.
The films entertain the idea that our world is not real, but rather a form of control in place to keep humans happy as a source of energy to an exsistence of machines, in which humans themselves created, and lost their control.
The idea behind the plot is that humans have the abillity to make a choice. That choice no matter how big or small, creates a sence of freedom and free will inside each and everyone of us.
We are free to chose to get up in the morning and go to school, or work, or to not. The plot tells us that we each can not see past our own choices that which we do not understand.
The ideas presented create a level of thinking and thought process that has never been seen before in film. The Matrix films asks the questions in which the answers only involve more questions.
I have always felt this difference, this single concept that I exsist because i chose to exsist. I was born because I chose to breath and live at that moment in my life.
These films make us question our own exsistence, reality, and life. I have started to fully understand just who I am in this life, more now that I have started to understand some very important things about life.
Anyone take Phylosiphy in high school or college?
Anyone every have a teacher tell you to answer the following question for your exam or paper in that class?
"Why?"
Simple question, infinatly impossible to answer with anything but the following:
"Why Not!"
I got a perfect grade for that two word answer to which several others wrote extensive papers in great lengths to answer the simple question, and all they had to write was the two words:
"Why Not!"
I have ADD, alwasy have, but my reality was shaken only 1 year ago this month with the diagnosis of ADD.
I could not see past the choice I had made long ago to hide within myself and deny myself a life because I was worthless to others.
I could not see past that choice because even though I had made that choice freely, I did not understand it, and the question "Why?"
Today I can say I finally see past that choice, and I understand Why? I made it freely. I am ADD, I am different, and I like who I am.
Today is an importnat day for me as I realize just how much abillity I truely have in this life, and beyond.
We each deal with our ADD and ADHD differently. Those around us deal with it in their own way as well.
We are free to chose as we see fit, and no one can make that choice for you. No one can trick you into making that choice, and you must remember that your choice is only yours, and you will make it freely of your own will.
I am ADD, always have been, and always will be. I have my own personal confictions, failures, fears, dreams, desires, and doubts, but I also have the abillity to chose.
I have the abillity to chose freely on my own in this life.
My path is chosen by me and no other.
Anyone who has not seen the films should consider them, if you have ever felt something inside was not quite right with you or the world around you. It will entertain your imagination, that which all ADD'ers know and love because it has no limits, no rules, and no boundries of what is possible.
A simple message was communicated through these films, and I wanted to share it with you all, as I thought it fit each one of us very well.
"Why Not!"
and
"Because I chose to...."
