Day -1: I hate my job. Debugging is such a pain. Wonder who hired such an idiot of a programmer? But somehow this is preferable. I cannot stand going back home where my 3 month pregnant wife is at her crankiest self. But then, my angel of a daughter needs to get her homework done. Oh, and I need to sign her up for summer camp. Hope I remember that. And in a couple of hours, I will drop her off at her soccer practice where I can have my moment of peace.
Day 0: I wake up spluttering out some weird liquid. There is this shooting pain in my back. I find myself all naked and wet, as a guy helps me up. “You are finally free”, he said! Free from what? What the hell is happening?
Day 7: As I adjust my life in Zion, it seems my entire life has crashed. My beautiful family gone, I was supposedly serving only as a battery for the machines. My entire existence was a lie till this moment. I just can’t differentiate reality from imagination.
Day 30: There is no sun, I am sleeping in cold bunkers, helping with menial chores. Most of the people who woke up are still confused. It is not easy adjusting to life here. Morpheus seems like a good man and a strong leader, and I think he will lead mankind to salvation. But I miss my family, my home, my car-my life.
Day 90: I can’t take it anymore. What use is this life? I was so much better in Utopia, being a battery for the machines. At least I had a life there, I was of some importance, my existence had some meaning. Here, I am just another faceless man in the crowd without any significance. I wish I was never free, I wish I could go back to my previous life, to my wife and daughter. Damn you Neo!!!