Most are familiar with the phrase “Think outside of the box.” It means being creative and looking at the situation from a different perspective. Ellina G from Sydney, Australia, puts a creative and captivating twist on what was once just a simple phrase. Ellina adds more depth and complete personal attribution to this title to change the expression from the former name “Think outside the box” to “Think inside the box.”

As I read this captivating article, I realized there was more importance to the simple change of the phrase “Think outside of the box” to “Think inside of the box,” which was intertwined with more personality and thought than the original words. As I continued to read, I learned that the box was never a figure of thoughts at all but symbolism for her life, memory, and personality. I saw a shine of vulnerability throughout the article as Ellina reveals how the box is really fifteen simple boxes that manage to piece every single part of her life into just a few moving boxes that will be transported from one place to another. (After relocating to Australia at age 7, Ellina’s family moved 9 more times in the next 10 years.)

Ellina mentions she is just disregarded as foreign, and that is all she is seen as. Her memories, treasures, and everything she holds so dear are just labeled foreign to everyone else. “Fifteen cardboard boxes hold all of my physical possessions. But they also hold who I am, where I have been, and where I am going. They hold my identity, my humanity, compactly folded to fit every layer of my existence”. This quote shows how Ellina’s whole world and everything she knows was just packed away in fifteen boxes and simplified into nothing but something to be taken from her and labeled to everyone else.