The Box

Each of us is born into a box. A family box. A social box. A cultural box. We naturally grow out of some of our boxes--the childhood box, the adolescent box. But then we reach the box of adulthood. There we can stay because we are comfortable and cozy, because we are afraid, because we don't even realize we are in a box.

For some us the box becomes a trap. So we realize that to escape the box, we must first recognize what the box for what it really is. We escape that box only to realize there is another box and another box, like a set of Russian dolls, but from the inside out.

How are we delivered from this seemingly frustrating dilemma? The answer is realizing that there were really no boxes to begin with. It was the life journey in which each box was, in fact, a call to a new, life renewing adventure for those who said "Yes!" to the challenge, the challenge that is living a full life.