I'm so sick of people using the phrase, "Think outside the box!"

I appreciate what it means, but change up a bit please.

Wonder if any of the millions that live in cardboard boxes because their situation got out of hand, or beyond their control ever say, "I need to think outside the box?"

I've found the bosses that used it in meetings I've been in, were the very people that did the same thing over and over, playing it safe, no risk, and were quick to throw you under a bus whenever their job depended on it. 

Once, stuck in LA traffic, just setting there daydreaming, I looked over at this guy sitting in his cardboard refrigerator box eating out of a can of beans, and I started thinking what if my time came up in the scheme of the matrix where it was my turn to be out there, homeless, no love, no hope, no healthcare, where would I go to find a quality cardboard box to live in?

Still setting there in traffic, I'm thinking about packing myself up in a cardboard box and shipping myself to an island somewhere, but postage rates are outrageous! 

Then the cars behind me start honking because traffic is moving and I'm just sitting there daydreaming. 

I wish I could daydream happy thoughts! I need better thoughts. I need to think differently. I need to change my thinking!

I need to think outside the box!

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