This one is heavily influenced from Seinfeld. As Jerry says , we all live in boxes in a sense. You are there in a womb - box. You are put inside a room - box. Then you are dumped in an auto rickshaw /car / van to school - box to box. Then college bus to Classroom to lab to office - boxing all the way. And the subsequent marriage to bedroom to hospital room to coffin - BOX! BOX!! BOX!!!... All our life BOX, and hence the expression "out of the box" ( of course making up this one).
So the phrase "out of the box" - other than the usual, something not related to your life, go beeping die yourself if you cant think normally.
But then there are few things out of the box which I like a lot
biking - one travel form where you are not in a box... Things don't move by your window during biking. One is not separated by that screen or veil . The biker blends, and he moves into the space , rather than the space seen moving through the window.
Sleeping under the stars - not just for the romantic ones as stereotyped in movies. Believe me, its a zen experience , wondering whats up there, see the shape shifting clouds, losing yourselves counting starts and getting dissolved into a small nothing in the big universe.
Trekking & hiking up - no one can put a big roof on mountain , right? Well , if sleeping under the stars is about going small, this is about feeling big . Standing on the cliff , office becomes far away, bosses invisible and you get few firsts of nature - the sunshine, the wind, the rain, the bird droppings too...
