Writing: ‘My Anything Box’ by Jeremiah Avalos

My anything box always gave me joy, when I was 6 me and my family moved, when we moved we got a new fridge, it came in this box, we kept the box and that box was my anything box. You might be wondering what my anything box is and well it’s a box. You might wonder what so special about a box and how a box can give you joy because you can really only put something in it. That might be true for any other box but not my box because that box was the size of a refrigerator. The reason I call it my anything box was because every day when I came home from school I remember going to the living room and imagining it’s a car, a plane, a base, a lab, really anything because 6 year old me was always overflowing with imagination, creativity and most importantly joy.

I always had joy when I was with my anything box. Every time there was a box I got it and stored it in my anything box so I could imagine it had super high tech computers and that they had signals detecting creatures all around me. Eventually I even made a castle where I would enter and not get bothered by the cars honking outside. The castle wasn’t that
big as I was small so anything was big when I was that age, but even though I was small and young I still had joy. I kept on adding newer stuff every single time a new box came. Although I did not only make a castle as every day I would take apart what I made and build something new the next day and so on.

The only time my anything box was actually used as something to store stuff was when I went to bed. I would put all the little boxes in my anything box and then go to sleep. Even when I was putting away the small boxes my anything box was still not just a box it was either a basketball hoop or a soccer goal. I would either throw the small boxes in like a basketball player or kick it in like a soccer player and then celebrate with joy. I remember
that I would either kick it up so it could be a basketball hoop or punch it down so it could be a soccer goal. I always felt like I had super powers that let me punch and kick massive buildings.

One thing I’ll always remember though is how every night I would go to bed thinking what my anything box will be, thinking of the joy I’ll have the next day.