As a child, I remember the exhilaration of deciding I would start digging deep into our backyard sandbox.

It was located under the kitchen window, surrounded by a string of wood logs that separated the yellow sand sanctuary from the rest of the cottage garden, which my father had paved with old cobbler stones.
Just like he had made us the sandbox.

He had even created a solid but smooth rectangle-shaped log, like a kitchen counter.
While our mother was cooking, we were making sand cakes under her window.

Then one day, and I still remember the excitement of this, I decided to start digging down into the sandbox, with my little plastic digger, and NOT STOP!
And I have no idea what I hoped to find but I do remember being so curious.
I couldn’t believe I had not thought of doing this earlier.
But now I was on it!

Fiercely, I started digging.

Only to find out that at about half a meter, there were tiles.
I could not go any deeper and was heavily disappointed.

Never again did an exploration end in facing boundaries this impermeable.
But what I have discovered was even more shocking.

We are not just surrounded by invisible boundaries;
We as a society are our own henchmen in enforcing them.
And I’m talking about boundaries that date back to ancient Greece and Rome.

The philosophy of materialism, which would later evolve into capitalism.

In the real world we will always find a carefully, and not seldom lovingly, constructed barrier, designed to keep the world, such as dirty and possibly contaminated sand, out.

But inadvertently keeping you in just as you were about to have your breakthrough.

Our obsession with possessions means that when people talk about freedom, they mean financial freedom.
Then freedom of time.
Maybe body, although people who protect their physical sovereignty are extremely rare.

But if we’re not free in our minds we will never have freedom.

Our mind has become the floor of tiles at half a meter depth.
Impermeable.
And keeping us in.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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