My Box

There is box that fits nicely around me. It's a comfortable and safe box that I have built out of fear. Fear of what ifs, and what has, the failures and hurts. Even though I have built it for protection, it seems that it has also been a detriment, for it's keeps me living in fear. As I have gotten older I have looked at my life and realized how much I have missed, and how much I haven't done all because of my box. My children keep trying to breech the perimeter I have set and through diffiulty I let them, for I don't want them to be afraid as I am. I look at them with envy and pride as they take on this world with confidence and strength. I have this past year broken out and done more than I ever imagined in life. It has helped me see all that I could have accomplished by now if I had just never built this box, so now I will step out and leave it behind and begin to live.