The Box

I know there is a feeling in you that you are stuck and the worst part is that you can't come out. It feels like you are stuck inside a closed box, kicking and pushing hard so that you can come out. You're trying hard, gasping for air, it becomes harder to breathe as time passes by. It feels impossible to get out of that box. And then hopelessness takes over you.

But in real life there is no box. You have kept yourself locked in that box of insecurity. You are bound to that imaginary box. You are hopeless that nothing good will happen if you get out of that box. So you decide to live there and suffocate. But you dream of getting out and of breathing again and looking at the bright sun. But you still lack the faith to get out.

You know there was a small caterpillar in this huge world who feared the world. He knew he would be crushed or be eaten someday. So it built a box type cocoon around itself scared of the world. He thought he'd be safe in there. But in reality he suffocated inside that cocoon. So one day he decided that he wants to get out and see the world. He evolved into beautiful butterfly. He had wings now and he got out and started to fly fearlessly into the big blue sky.

No matter how much we be inside that box or cocoon, we are just suffering. I know it is hard but it is really not impossible. We may not get the wings but we get freedom.