It's not as boring as it sounds. It all starts with a signal that your brain sends to your eyes. If you believe that you are simply a visitor on this Earth for an already determined amount of time, take a look around every once in awhile. I mean REALLY take a look around. I did this the other day and realized that life really is a box inside a box, inside another box with square shaped objects that resemble a box. This isn't the first time I have heard of this; a teacher once pointed this out to a class I was in. Your eyes become so accustom to shapes that shapes simply don't even matter anymore. It's just the object you concentrate on.
Think about how boring a book store is. A square entrance, a square shelf, full of square books, square patterns on the walls and floor, you pay with square money or a square card and then walk back out through a square door. Riveting. Or, take for example right now. Look around your room. I can guarantee that are at least 4 or 5 square objects. A computer screen, a filing cabinet, a window, a door, a drawer, the floor, your keyboard or keys on the keyboard, your desk, a television, a book, your phone, perhaps your mouse pad, and most certain...the room. This is your life inside a square. All units of equality and balance are measured by the square. Think about it a bit further and you realize that you don't even think about it at all. It just becomes a habit for your mind and eyes. When you are taking a picture, you are usually trying to centre your subject inside a square screen. You turn on the television at night and the subject is inside a square screen, being filmed through a square frame, inside a square room, inside of a square house.
Doesn't it make you realize how simple life is? It's all a big square. Maybe that's why that advertisement doesn't always catch your eye? It's just a another square. I believe that when life throws you a triangle, a circle or an octagon, you are that much more likely to pay attention to it.
Take for instance driving: You stop at a stop sign because your eyes notice a different shape. You can recognize the colour of a stop light because it's a circle. You notice the fancy cars because they are a shape all on their own. But when you get out of your car, do you ever really look at the door you slam? Or the next one you open? Do you ever notice what colour it is? What kind of trim it has? Nine times out of ten, the answer is no. Your mind only makes the attempt to open the door, instead of actually staring at it. It really is amazing thought isn't it? That your mind knows enough to just concentrate on opening the door and not really looking at the detail of it. I wonder what it would be like to open up a restaurant called Triangles where you have nothing but triangles in the place. The door, the sign, the windows, the tables, the chairs, the plates, the glasses. I think it would be incredibly successful. Everyone would say, "You have to go check out this restaurant called Triangles. Every thing is a triangle!," as if our mind is amazed by the shape. Patent pending.I think it would be impossible to count the number of squares you encounter on a day to day basis. I'm sure it would be in the hundreds or perhaps even thousands. In fact, I challenge you to try it and re post how many you count in a single day, or how many your eyes look at. Maybe it's the thought of different shapes that makes our mind more attentive, a test for instance. If you were to take this one step further, you could relate this to the black box theory and how our mind works. For example, if you had a black box that you could not open, could not just "look inside" to see how it worked, all you could do is guess how it worked based on what happens when we do something to it (an input) and what occurs as a result of that (an output). If you put an orange in on one side, and an orange falls out the other, you could make an educated guess on what is happening inside the black box. It could be filled with oranges, it could have a conveyor belt to move the orange from one side to the other, it could even go through an alternate universe for all we know. All you can do is guess. You have to guess what is going on inside the square darkness. However, it's the square concept that your mind concentrates on. All you do is test your mind on how it works without actually knowing HOW it works.
The point of the sitdown this week was to expose things around you but also to help you realize that your life is a series of developed boxes inside one another, on top of each other and surrounded by you. It's not so much a scary thought as it is an interesting one. You live in a "box", some of us work in a "box" and for everyone, you are going to walk through a "box" everyday of your life. So there you have it ladies and gentlemen; a simple way of looking at the big box theory that is your life. And until they come out with circle doors like you see on cartoons, you are 99% likely to walk through or see at least one square a day. It's inevitable.
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