While The Matrix is definitely full of a bunch of sci-fi mumbo jumbo and awesome special effects, there are some striking similarities with parenthood.
Read Part 1 of this “Parenting-Matrix” comparison.
- Once you take the red pill (ie. your baby enters this world) there is definitely no going back – but why would you want to?
- The rabbit hole never ends, it just changes.
- There are days where it feels like you are fighting an army of Agent Smith’s.
- Any blip in your new reality, aka The Matrix, freaks you out.
- The sludge that Neo eats on the Nebuchadnezzar looks like baby poop.
- Just as Neo was a wreck after being “reborn” – you too feel like a wreck when your child is born.
- The internet becomes your oracle – lots of “guidance”, but nothing definitive.
- Your baby completes the Trinity (assuming this is your first child).
- Like loading Ju Jitsu or helicopter piloting directly into your skull, somehow you just learn to change a diaper or burp your child. It just sort of comes to you.
- There’s a difference between knowing the path and walking it – another cliche that makes so much damn sense.
BONUS: “I didn’t come here to tell you how this was going to end. I came here to tell you how it would begin.” Who knew Neo had so much wisdom?
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