He woke up this morning a little earlier than normal because today is the first year anniversary of his escape. He wants to relish every moment of the day and to not take his liberation for granted.

He escaped the rat race exactly one year ago today. He likes to think of his liberation from that 9-to-5 dredgery as a "Neo's-Awakening". His life is fundamentally changed and he sees everything in a new light. Sometimes he seriously wonders if he has died (maybe without knowing it, like while he was sleeping) and is now living in some kind of afterlife that he has mentally constructed for himself... it really is that wonderful.

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