This Girl...

There once was a girl who lived in a box. It was a larger sized box. There was nothing special about this box. It was an ordinary looking box with no adornments or decorations of any kind. This girl lived here day after day. No one knew about this girl and her box. She lived alone and day after day she searched for an opening for this box. You see no one knew about this girls life in this box. She had everything she needed in her box. There wasn’t a great deal of light in this box of hers. But on the other hand, this box was not completely devoid of all light. It was fairly normal.

Until one day this girl noticed a sliver of light that was brighter than the light already in this box. She searched high and low to find the source of this life to no avail. One day she looked up. What she saw was a small opening in her box. One that was new. She hadn’t noticed this before. Try as she might though this girl could not reach the hole. One day this girl put everything together into a pile and climbed to the top of the pile of household objects.

She climbed over the toaster. Over the kitchen table and around the television. And using the kitchen sink as a final stepping stone this girl reached the source of unnatural light in her box. As she looked outside she found a person sitting calmly on top of her box. She knocked and there was no response she yelled and the was again no response.

The girl decided to investigate what would be on the other side of the box. She did this by locating a set of kitchen knives which were located under the sofa and between the hairdryer and the mattress. Slowly this girl started to scrape at the edges of the hole until the blade of each knife was blunt. When there were no knives left this girl started using whatever utensil she could find in order to make this hole bigger.

After a few days the girl found that the hole was just big enough to crawl through. This is exactly what this girl did. When she got to the other side. She found a person still sitting on the other side. She went up to this person and asked them why they were sitting on her box. They told her that he too was stuck inside a box just like hers. Until he found a light also. He did nearly the same as her in that he tried to make the hole bigger so that he too could see what lay outside the box.

He invited this girl further out of her box to take a look at what else existed outside her box. The girl looked around her and what she saw amazed her. Around her box lay a sea of boxes. Just like hers. And just like her some of them had other people sitting on the top of it. Some of them had holes and others didn’t.

This girl was amazed and repulsed in the same breath. She took a good look around and drank in the new view. After a while the boy invited her to join him in his box for a while. The girl agreed and followed him jumping from one box to another until they reached one that had a slightly larger hole in the top.

The boy told her it was because he liked to watch people coming in and out of their boxes. So he made his hole bigger so that he could some and go as he pleased. The girl looked around and noted that everything looked the same from here as it did from her box. The girl paused for a minute and random thoughts ran through her head.

After a few minutes the girl turned and climbed back over the other boxes in the direction of hers. She found it safe just as she had left it. Wordlessly she climbed back into the box. When inside she covered her hole with bits of card to keep the light out.

She placed every last bit of furniture back in its place. She sharpened her knives and placed her hardware tools back where they belonged. And when everything was back in its rightful place, this girl vowed never to leave her box again.


(the results of my boredom)

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