ONLY SCRACHED THE SURFACE

Lower a gold fish bowl into the ocean, and see how long it has been programmed to swim round and round. Until it discovers all it had to do is swim up and out to 'more space'. Freedom!

There's that sense of freedom in thinking outside the box; in going along the path less trodden (if ever at all.) Only to find there's a whole new concept to the reality we already thought we knew. Or it's sometimes seeing what was always right in front of out noses, yet overlooked for being so familiar; now seen in a whole new light. Indigenous folk of the world don't think nor create their knowings inside a box. Many have a way of thought, which we are learning from them! They enjoy 'outside the box'.

It's a journey not everyone can share. Like the goldfish some haven't discovered the bigger picture to life. Like the obvious before us, no-one thought beyond. To date everything we know and written has been supposed to be known or discovered. But it's when we begin to think for ourselves, that even more can be revealed. To date, we have only scratched the surface of anything 'outside the box'.

Let's say 'the box' is our school text books. The one we learned from, which was then called 'Creative Thinking and Understanding'. Some text has kept up with the times, while others are as far off as if unchangeable since those who first wrote them down. History has changed the original text of these. Change, like everything is in inevitable. Yet there are those who have done all this reasoning process in the past - like Leonardo da Vinci - where it took 500 years to understand his thinking outside the box!

Thinking outside the box of creative knowledge has come a long - and can go much further - if it is directed even more toward the children. A new age has sprung since those explorers of any originative intelligent subject put press to the print, for the schools of yesterdays findings. Why must one think 'inside the box' - or fit into it - if some were born outside the box, in the first place?

Our Space Age kids have little influential aid within progress of thought, against those who rule 'what always has been' inside the container. It is literally the new millennium; not the the days when so many text books were created; when thoughts and thinking have long reached Stella proportions to what was; and what now really is. Tip out the boxes that are outdated, and fill them with what is now 'outside the box of new Creative Thinking'. This is our children's turn to 'act outside the box'; for they were already born thinking that way.

The old boxes are bursting with so much changed thought! The Creative Light of New Knowledge is theirs to know beyond what once was. Today is Now... outside the box. Think!

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