Existentialism

Pandora's Box

This is a story that came up to my head in a very critical period of time in life and I'm sure it's the same intense emotion every human being experiences when they are put into such kinds of situations or events...

So, I'm not sure about the exact story of Pandora's box, since it's been a while, and I learnt it in school. ( again I'm not too old, I just sound like that cause I'm probably an old soul, who knows)

When I thought about Pandora's box, and its unending treasures or curses, whichever one's you wanna focus on, I realized something.

The box is "unending", which means that there is no end to it, the boon the curses they're both equivalent.

As human beings, I feel, or it is my little theory, that we are born with or as Pandora's boxes, in the sense, as we learn things we store in into that box, which of course implies to the "boon" part of it and all the other negative events we witness or experience or partake in, they're the "curses"....

And as life goes on, we're making us of both, by being kind to people and being bad or rude to people as well ( regardless of situations ) , but when we are teenagers, when we are embarking this new journey of understanding, somehow we feel that we've ran out of these 'boons' and 'curses', so suddenly, when we open up this box only to find a cold black void, we jump right into it to search for either of the two.

It's funny cause, jumping into it, is like jumping into an endless abyss, it's cold, its unknown, it's dark, it's a void.

Somehow, we try to comprehend that there's an end to it, so wherever we reach, we find some kind of tools or weapons, something we've never used before because the previous 'boons' and 'curses' we already made and given to us readily, now that we've got to work for it, we have to choose them wise, because we dont really know what the outcome could be, so we work and continue at it, so if we're sad sometimes,or if we're happy sometimes, or if we're angry, it may absorb it.

Correspondingly, this void, this abyss, gets deeper and deeper with out curiosity, doubt and insecurities, only once we realize that all this while we could've actually used those tools to get us out instead of creating an antidote to something unknown, only then do we  start to discover our life, and the things we can do.

Life is compilation of alot of things, only when we try to take a step ahead instead of waiting on things to happen do we experience different changes.