I recently wrote about a documentary Park Avenue that used the game of Monopoly to illustrate some facts about capitalism. Mack, the same guy who called my attention to that video, sent me to the very short video embedded below, Back in the Box. It is just some graphics put together to go along with a three and half minute talk by John Ortberg, author of When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box.

In this case, the video uses the game of Monopoly to illustrate the most important fact about life. There are two ways to think about this, I think. On a profound, but simple level, it is about stuff. I’m not that interested in stuff. On a more complex level, it is about who we are. And this is what I care about. Two and a half years ago, I wrote about this very briefly:

But there is more to it than this. While other people fear death, I take great solace from it. I have no illusions that my life is a particularly important work of art. But it could be just terrible. I could have taken fairly good materials and made a total mess of them. But within 75 years at the most, it will not matter in the least. And that makes me feel much better.

Regardless of what you have that you will have to put back in the box, I think you’ll enjoy this short video: