Across the borders

Psychologists refer to abstractions that people view as boundaries for themselves as constructs.  Educators use the word paradigm for the set of expectations that are acceptable.  Business coined the term box for the acceptable practices that guide them.  I suppose it doesn't really matter which term you use as long as you understand that the boundaries people have drawn for themselves are imaginary and arbitrary.

That's not a newsflash.  People have known this for at least a century.  Philosophers have known it for longer than that.  I guess the amazing thing is that people attach expectations and acceptance to boxes, paradigms, and constructs.  While I fully understand the need for structure, order, and law, the arbitrary nature of making up more expectations for acceptance than is necessary bothers me tremendously.

People have too many boxes, each with rules, with which to accept others, too many paradigms within which to operate and about which to make protocols, too many constructs by which to keep the mind straightjacketed.  I just want to shout, "Break out!"   Enjoy the beauty life constantly shows us outside the box, across the boundaries of the constructs, on territory just outside the paradigms.                                                             ,