Matrix Reloaded

It was another evening jut like any other evening when I return from my work.
Me and my friend walking , chatting….chatting about endless unrelated things. . About the pollution, how it affect our skin. The traffic, how the riders dont show any respect for pedestrians. The managers, how irrational they are.

Suddenly the sight struck me.. S, did u notice that?, I asked.
What?, she looked around the passers-by and then me, quizzically..
Well...I was not sure. Should I tell her? She was my new friend. A friendship which was just 6 months old. I wasn’t quite sure if she would understand my imaginative ( read "weird") thoughts.

What I saw was a strange sight. It was those initial days when Bangalore traffic police had mandated the use of helmet.
A Hero Honda Splendor passed by. The pillion was trying to put helmet on the riders head. They were riding slowly and I saw them coming from a distance. The pillion first
tried squeeze the rider's head into the helmet though the visor opening, then corrected it.

It reminded me of one those forwarded email attachment, which had a picture of a cute lady wearing the helmet through the visor opening. Of course it was a manipulated image. One of the many horrid yet unsuccessful attempts of our partner community to disgrace us, the elite ones. As the thoughts filled my mind, here it comes. I see it again. Another bike, again Splendor, and the pillion trying to force in the riders head into it.. Isn't it a strange recurrence? You may not classify it as strange..Well..it was not something that you would see again and again.

Baang!!! the idea hit me. Have you seen Matrix - Trilogy. To the Matrix lovers, when do you see the same sight twice in the matrix, Deja vu? When the matrix undergoes some change, isn’t it?

Is it true? Are we really in a Matrix? What I see, I feel and I do are just the imaginations my programmed mind? My mind at work to cater the fuel for those darn machines..
I have heard many people talking obsessively about the Matrix concept, it's spirituality, philosophy..history..geography..and..God knows the rest..

But are we?
As my mind snailed through the matrix, back in the virtual world, S was still staring at me. She repeated, "What?". Probably the second time.
I don’t think I should drag her from this virtual world, I thought.
"No, nothing. I thought I saw something, leave it", I said ..We continued walking, chatting in the virtual world, wondering in the matrix world.

I reached home, but I could not set aside the matrix thoughts even when I was doing my household chores. Shall I tell, S ?
This S is my partner in the virtual world. There are very good chances that he might be plugged next to me in the matrix world also.

No, I dont know in what mood he would be. Dismissed that idea

Later all through out the night, the different scenes of my role in the Matrix flashed though my mind. Me as Trinity..I tried to imagine myself in Trinity's black skin fit costumes, doing all those acrobatics. I doubt my poor body could bear so many sprains.
Oracle might be a better option. Baking cookies of revelation. That sounds interesting. I sure must have some secret recipie. Chilling out in my verandhah in the after noon, with a group of disciples, them eating my "cookies of knowledge". Seeing the way I am undergoing the lateral growth recently, I am sure to become like Oracle , by looks. So that part is settled. I am the Oracle.

Now, who is S? Neo? The One. His teenage snaps speaks that he was a '1' during his college days. But now he is on his best effort to look like a '0'.
The increasing tone of Neo's snoring beside me, posed another interesting question. Do we generate bio-electricity while sleeping?
That may be an off-state of us - the bio-machines. But what I am talking is not about normal sleep. But my Neo's sleep, which on a normal working day was 9 hours.
12 hours on an average holiday, but has proved his capability to extend it to 16-20 hours if not interrupted.

Who will save the world, the human race, if Neo sleeps away his best part of life like this? He sure needs an awakening, heed to the 'call'. Trinity must come and wake him up from his deep slumber of ignorance. Trinity? If I am the Oracle, then who is Trinity. Hey, No...It cant be. He is not Neo.
I am not Oracle either. And there is no Matrix.
Just sleep...
S.