A friend, teacher and mentor of mine is currently seeking others' ideas on how to make a box. He is collecting different approaches and creative solutions to this simple problem for a presentation he will be giving. I found the idea very interesting and raised the following questions:
What constitutes a box?
Does it need to contain something?
Must it be cube-shaped?
Must it be an actual box, or can it be a picture of a box?
What about the concept of "thinking outside of the box" (which can be construed to be a means of compartmentalizing thought all its own)?
I later submitted this box, for all that in some ways it is only a manifestation of a preexisting box that is then ideally destroyed. I am posting it here because the exercise itself can be very cathartic, and so I thought that perhaps someone else may benefit from it.
How to make (and break) a box:
Cup your hands together to enclose a pocket of air. Whisper something you need to get off your chest or an unspoken desire into the pocket you have created within your cupped hands. Pause. Contemplate the moment. Feel the weight of the secret grow within your hands as you transfer it from within the depths of your soul. Unfold your hands to release the built up tension and to free your mind and spirit. Feel the secret lifted from you as you let it go.
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