BOXES

Why do we live in boxes? Our houses have rooms, which are boxes. Our boxes are in neighborhoods with other boxes. Our neighborhoods are in counties, which are in boxes. And the counties are in states—more boxes. States are boxed in countries. We visit doctors whose offices are in boxes, and who operate in boxes. We shop in big store boxes and buy products in boxes. We ride in boxes to attend schools in boxes. The school boxes are like the boxes we live in—they have four walls, a floor, and a ceiling. At home our kitchen has an "ice" box, and our oven is a hot box; our cabinets are boxes. Our bedrooms have boxes to keep our clothes in. We watch other people on a box called a TV while they do things in their own boxes. Some people in our TV boxes are watching TV shows about other people watching something on their TV boxes. I wonder if we can live without our boxes, and when we die, they put us in a box, which is then put into another box, which is then encased with soil on all sides—another box. How did we decide to live in square/cube boxes when our planet is round? I think that in many places in the world, humans are not fixated on boxes, but instead they build other shapes to live in—homes built of natural materials that don't require wood stolen from the forests.

Namaste!