out of the box

for the past several days I've been attempting to read the current blogs of Posie, a crafter, as well as browse her collection of quilts. At first, I was simply looking at the pictures, and then the words caught my attention. "I think she thinks like us," I told my mother. And then I read the quote below, and knew it was true. This is not me all of the time, but just enough of the time that I can laugh and nod simultaneously:

"Turns out, predictably yet still much to my dismay, I am very much an inside-the-box thinker. Darn it! I wanted to come out so bad! But I like the box. I like the safe little box. I tried so hard to peek my little bunny nose, quivering nervously, out of the box, but only two seconds out and I hopped back into the box. I couldn't get out of the box. I couldn't imagine how to get out of the box and still follow the rules. I'm also a rule-follower. You tell me the rules and I'll follow them, and if you break the rules I'll completely freak out and start twitching and look at you as if the Rule-Setting People are right on the other side of the box, ready to pop out and throw you in jail. And they will!!! I think they will. They do that."