Sabtu, 26 Desember 2015

Boxes



Hello there, white blank space! Haven't seen you in three months.

I just learned something recently. So there is this group of people who live in boxes. Each of them has their own personal box, with their head, hands and feet popping out of it. They eat, sleep, do every single thing while being inside the box. But there is one point that you need to keep in mind, though. They didn't choose to be inside the box, there were put inside the box.

Sadly I'm not really sure who put those poor people inside the box. But it is probably me, or maybe you, as I said before, I can't be sure about it. But to make it easier, let's just say it was I who had put them inside the boxes. 

Some time ago, when they were sleeping, I picked each of them up and shoved them inside these boxes that I just happened to have in excess. I was really busy with moving to a new home, I bought a bunch of boxes, a whole bunch of them, because I thought that I'd need a lot of them. When I finished packing up all my belongings, it turned out that the corridor leading out of my house was still stuffed with empty boxes. What a pity, I thought. Instead of just throwing them away, might as well fill it with something. And that's how those people ended up inside a box.

The story didn't end there, actually. To help me discern one box from another, I put post-its on the inside part of the box. At first, I started with red, because I had a lot of red post-its, but midway through, I realized that I didn't have enough red post-its. Since I had no other way out, I took my old post-its, some were blue, white and some were even rainbow colored, then I taped them in randomly.

It won't be a problem, right? It's just paper with different color.

Even if it becomes a problem, those post-its were taped inside, so each of those people can keep it to themselves. Although whoever put them inside those boxes may be extremely disappointed after hearing that people make such a fuss about difference in color, when they don't even mind being put inside a box.


p.s. there is no known people living literally the way I mentioned above.