The depth and hidden meaning of the Matrix film trilogy is truly admirable. One of my favorite scenes in the first movie is when Morpheus walks with Neo and explains what the Matrix is, but while Neo is listening, he gets distracted by the beautiful woman in the red dress.
So Morpheus asks: “Did you hear me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress? »
Before Neo admits he's been carried away, Morpheus tells him to look again, but this time he sees Agent Smith pointing a gun at his head.
So what is the deeper meaning behind this scene? What does the woman in the red dress represent?
It simply represents her distraction that disconnects us from our goals and purpose in life. This has nothing to do with her gender, it's just a stupid product of the system and created to distract.
For us, women in red dresses come in the form of TV, alcohol, drugs, social media abuse, mindless internet surfing, celebrity culture, pornography, superficial relationships, materialism and a consumerist lifestyle that prevents us from evolving and creating the self we can and deserve.
One way to achieve a big future goal that seems like a mountain to us and therefore we have enough chances to give up, is to look at today, and what changes and new actions we can start and maintain in our everyday life. These small actions will then lead us to the bigger goal as long as we do them systematically and do not give up.
Because you need to take small daily steps to reach a big goal, the smartest and most effective approach is to familiarize yourself with them and, above all, enjoy the process. This will be one more motivation to conquer the next goal.
There comes the woman in the red dress every day, in a different costume each time as we said above, to distract you, for five minutes, for half an hour, for a whole afternoon or evening. Many times for weeks or months only to end up wondering why you didn't achieve your goal (again).
The difference between the successful and the unsuccessful is that successful people have successful habits, unsuccessful people don't. A habit is something you repeat often, until it becomes easy. Your life is the sum of your small daily habits. Good habits clearly bring good results. The point is that the effects of bad habits are usually not immediate and appear later in a person's life.
To achieve your goals and those that once seemed like a mountain, the best option to not give up in the middle of the journey is to acquire the appropriate habits that will be empowering and in the direction of your goal. This needs daily discipline, combined with the desire to achieve the goal and with the commitment that there will be no exception to any "woman in red dress" that comes your way…
Whether one succeeds depends on how good a "driver" the person is. Because life itself is a car with a human driver and it depends on how well he knows how to press the brake or accelerator at the time of need.
Alexios
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