boxing day

Joe was an ordinary guy. He worked at an ordinary Pizza Hut. He listened to ordinary elevator music. And Joe lived in an ordinary box.
In Joe's life, controlled by society, every person was required to wear a box, in order to conceal their identity. Or, in Joe's mind, keep them from having one at all.
It was hard work, living in a box. Joe could only see life through two small holes cut into the side of his box. It was difficult to see and breathe, much less do anything else. Like go to the bathroom. But Joe didn't like to talk about that. But Joe didn't talk much about anything. Because he couldn't understand the people around him.
Unlike Joe, these people actually had gotten used to the boxed life. They even seemed to enjoy it. Joe couldn't see how you could enjoy eating through a little hole. How you could enjoy sleepng at night in a claustrophobic little square, surrounded by nothing but the smell of your own stinky breath.
So Joe avoided his neighbors. He avoided his co-workers. Joe basically avoided seeing anyone whatsoever, which wasn't very difficult since he could only see through those two little holes.
Joe lived a lonely, boxed-in life.
Until....
disaster struck.
Not only was he the only aware person in his community, but Joe also had very, very bad luck. So one day, while Joe was walking to work, the unthinkable happened- a rude and large man brushed past Joe, hitting him so hard that his box flipped around.
Now the thing about these boxes is they only have holes on one side. So now, Joe couldn't see anything.
So, he walked.
And walked.
Until he couldn't hear the murmur of people anymore.
Until his city was far behind him.
Until he could hear grass crunching under his feet.
And then, Joe's luck changed for the better.
A crazy wind, blowing everything around, swept Joe's box off of his head.
Joe watched the box fad into the distance.
And looked at the sky through two eyes for the first time.
And blinked really hard because the light was too bright.
And then Joe walked toward the sun, and his new life....
....outside of the box.