Confession #4
Sometimes I feel bad for people who think inside the box. They always get a bad rep.
posted by Lexia at 9:18 PM
6.24.2006
Sometimes I feel bad for people who think inside the box. They always get a bad rep.
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8 Comments:
It is safe and cozy inside the box.
I always picture a mime stuffed inside a box when I hear the phrase "inside/outside the box."
I am thankful for people who think inside the box. Without them we wouldn't have accountants (not that I have a need for one), or dentists, or manual laborers, or...okay, I quit. But I'm thankful for them, nonetheless.
Think inside the box
Hate to point it out...but the box is so big we all live in it. People who live "outside the box" are really creating smaller boxes around the people they percieve to live in the box...but really its just a sub box to the gigantic limitating box of our minds. Suckas to us all!
It's interesting how much you all support "in-box" thinkers. Sometimes I think parameters can provide a way for our minds to be super creative. I mean, if there are "limitations," then our minds have to work in overdrive to create a solution - allowing simple problem-solving skills to become an art form.
One of my favorite quotes of all time is by Picasso. He said, "You have to learn the rules before you can break them." He's not saying Learn the rules until there are none; rather, learn the rules so you can change them. Love it.
Blake: it's funny that you blogged about it too. It's in the genes.
One of the Mulcock Brothers: spoken like a true philosopher.
I've always been a firm proponent of rules and boundaries in poetry. I think they force you to be more creative, and put more thought, more effort into your work.
That's why the sonnet is my favorite form. Compare Shakespeare's with those by Edna St. Vincent Millay, those of William Blake with Claude McKay--they all use the same basic form but they adapt to the strictures and use them in different ways.
Would you say, I taught you kids to think this way? Or would you say, I think outside the box or just try to get around the brick walls that pop up before me constantly. Nice Blog and so clean and pretty. Fun spot to visit. MOM
Or would you say, where did you go to school mom? THE SCHOOL 'O Haahd Knocks!
That 'll teach ya how to think either in or out of the box!
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