The Box Inside You
An inbox of wisdom that doesn't show easily
Does your knowledge have meaning or serve a purpose?
I sometimes think about this in relation to what I’m currently doing in life.
It often leads me to ask more questions and have doubts about myself.
What I learned today, this week, month, year, or perhaps in any period of my memory that is worth something of value for me to head into the next step of my life.
We often don’t know what’s coming towards us from far away. But we know it will eventually come; I’m not talking about death. (That could be a whole separate article of ideas)
What I’m referring to is what we can still do and have some kind of control over.
While we might think we have certain things under control, many times we do not.
Take, for example, the simplest form of control would be self-control.
However, we know that we break our own little promises and good habits all the time. We even forget that we did that sometimes.
Just like we are running around in a box.
An inbox of information that brings us ideas.
Where did it come from?
How was it formed?
Why for what?
If we think clearly and look closer, we don’t even fully understand how our mind works, nor are we even close to having any more control over it besides the moments that we focus on completing a known task that is done before.
But we have to do something that we are so familiar with, with little interest; we might fall asleep when we reach a certain point.
For example, like my job, when keying in a bunch of data repeatedly for an extended period of time, I would probably take a nap for about 5 seconds a few times until my task has to switch into a different kind of work.
Or maybe I was just tired from sleeping late for many nights.
Yet there’s a pattern that our body and even the mind follow.
It can be hard to explain, and examples may vary from person to person depending on how they end up where they are today.
Turning thoughts into useful ideas with meaning. Yet, the meaning of something might not mean anything to others, but you have to make it real first.
Not everyone, or most people, need to hear what we have to say; for the most part, they listen because of a few key elements.
Personal, work, mental, and material. (these are metaphors btw)
Within these 4, there’s a chain of a mixture of complex combinations that holds a person accountable for their act.
I would like to call it like an act on a stage: for every person, thing, or event that happens around us, we react to it like an actor.
It can be hard to notice, but we know it’s there.
Sometimes acting naturally and unnaturally is the same thing, while being you might not be you.
Personal includes family, work includes friendships, mental is within, and material is external factors.
However, there’s still a strong sense of acting involved, even if we don’t want to admitted.
I start with controlling my ability to explore what I haven’t said.
And what I say is like the other face of the moon that may be unheard.
Thanks for Reading
This story was originally published on [Medium] and is cross-posted here for a wider audience.