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15/ The ghosts of their parents always hung around them as a source of constant self-coercion. I tried to point this out but they just said "Shoo, go away, I'm busy doing Important Stuff." Dude, ur sitting on the ground literally trying to Do Nothing.

16/ One day though it hit me, what they were actually trying to do. They were trying to find the Perfect Box. The sense of safety and contentment you can get by sitting in a box is unmatched. It makes perfect sense that one would want to have this feeling.

17/ The trouble is humans are always trying to make a better box. Some humans are in steel boxes, eating the same meal 3 times a day with only 30minutes of outdoors time a day and complain about how horrible it is. I live like this and I'm perfectly fine and not insane!

18/ There are so many free boxes in the word and new ones appear ALL the time.(delivered by Amazing Prime) What's the point of getting bigger and bigger boxes? At some point you're basically just buying a feeling of emptiness.

19/ My best guess is that finding a box to squeeze yourself into takes too much effort. By living in a box, you can theoretically get the same feeling all the time. It obviously doesn't work, but even if it did, why would you want to spend your *whole* life in a box. 3hrs tops.

20/ I'm reminded of this recurring visitor who came to the monastery over a period of many years. Each time he would come and humble brag about how great his new bigger box was.

21/ One day though, he ingested some chemicals (I assume it was catnip) and after rolling on the ground for an hour, got up and yelled "FREEDOM IS THE GREATEST OF ALL BOXES." To this day, he is still looking for that box.

22/ It's the same emptiness problem. The Universe is technically a box and this isn't an insight that unlocks anything particularly useful. People want freedom the same way they *think* they want a bigger box. It's something to do.