The red pill versus blue pill choice is derived from the film, The Matrix, where Morpheus offers Neo a choice of pharmaceuticals which will determine if he wants to live imprisoned in an alien-controlled dystopia or to take up arms against it on behalf of embattled Zion.
Blue Pill
Life would have been a lot easier if I went along with the lies.
Red Pill
Even if life is harder when after you learn what’s really going on, I’d rather live disillusioned.