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In order to understand The Last Box, we must start with the First Box. The Box symbolizes the container that is filled with all your personal belongings that you proudly displayed on “Your Desk” in “Your Office” at work. The family photos, the dried up rose from an arrangement that your sweetheart sent you on your first day at your new job, the silly pens with fuzzy tops, awards and insignificant marketing goodies that look cute but are really rather useless.
They looked good on your desk and gave you a sense of comfort, made your surroundings familiar, created conversations from your co-workers and clients or just brought a smile to your face at the end of a long day or the start of what is to be a very long day. But somehow, all these treasures take on a new look when you have to neatly arrange them in a box to take to the next office due to a promotion; the next job, because you found a better one or………………..You Got Fired!
Most of these boxes had a sense of accomplishment and pride attached to them as you moved on to bigger and better things. But the one you tearfully placed your treasures in as quickly as possible, as you were about to be escorted out the door (in a non-humiliating way of course), is the box that we would most want to forget. The Box is ugly, it’s painful, it’s embarrassing and, at the moment, it’s a sign of failure. Yes, that Big Red Sign that says “I Failed” might as well have been plastered on every side of that box for the entire world to see. |
