I do get lonesome when I go for days without talking to anyone. And often, I'll have weeks where I'm just deep in a funk where I have no appetite and sleep too many or too few hours.

So, when I'm in a box.... I don't really know how to get out.

I typically refuse to be boxed in in the first place, but for the times that anyone dares to try, I tend to unnerve them with some unexpected or embarrassing (for them) behavior and make my escape while they are shaking their head in disgust.

I thought of a couple of snarky remarks....

"With a box cutter".

"Is thsi the same box that holds Schrodinger's cat?"

Seriously though, I am in agreement that most "boxes" are just a state of mind and conditioning. We feel we have no decisions, only because we have closed off the best decisions, to get us out of our boxes. We often don't see our best options because we have been conditioned not to consider them as options. That is why you hear so many times that a person needs to "Think out of the box".

If you feel you are out of options you need to break your rules for "normal" and what you think to be "the right way to act."

I have mentioned here several times about how Durkeim's study of suicide found that people who live under rigid religions are three times as lkely to commit suicide as the general population. These people have closed off options and choices for themselves to a poitn where they feel they are trapped and can't fo on. They need to break out of the sif imposed rigid rules which make them so miserable.

When you find yourself thinking, "I can't do that?" you really need to ask yourself "Why not?" Living though the consequences of breaking the rules is a lto less miserable than being trapped in the box.

What is the box made of?

Use reverse operations?