Escaping The Box into The Unknown
Trying to squish myself into the box was horrifying. Humanity's box of inner and outer violence, greed, and fear was not a fun place. For a long time, I didn’t know there was an alternative.
Braced, tight-jaw, shallow breath, I agonized scrunching myself into a rotting small box, filled with scum, built eons ago. Cobwebs of self-hatred billow, my self-worth oozed through smelly dross. Patches of…