a box of sand?

Once you are outside this sandbox you are free to come and go as you please. You cannot bring anything inside the box as proof of this outside world, but you can show the people inside that there are doors that lead to this world if they so choose to go through them. I chose to go explore these doors. I have been able to see over the walls of the sandbox and learn about this world. A world that allows me to analyze who I am, a world that can teach me things beyond the views of the Christian religion, a world that will not always judge me for thinking differently. I have found that philosophy had prepared me to be capable of opening these doors that lead outside, yet I remain living inside the sandbox. I know that I am close to finding the courage to step through the door and leave the sandbox but not today. I feel I am so close to becoming something that will put part of my soul at ease, even for a short time.