Imagine getting a beautiful box handed to you. The box is wrapped in exquisite paper and topped with an exquisite bow. However, what are the contents? What if what is on the outside is not representative of what is on the inside? What would you do if you opened the box and found fresh dog shit in there? Then what? You judged based on the exterior rather than the contents. How would you feel? Would you keep the paper and bow and chuck the box of shit?
Imagine getting a small object wrapped in a paper towel or toilet paper and closed only by a string? Would you see value there? What if the content was a marble which appeared to hold all the stars in the universe? To the majority of you, I bet you would rather have the fresh dog shit in the beautiful box than something as lovely as I have described above. It is my belief that the superficial wrapping would be viewed as valueless and discarded. Perhaps you would not even find beauty in the marble had you sought beneath the surface.
Gift boxes, books, and people are the same. Do not judge on what is seen as what is seen is not always what is. Then again, what is your value system? ~ Maggie ~ September 8, 2008 @ 4:46 p.m. EST.
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