Shrink-wrap

I remember one day riding a taxi cab in the busy & nosy streets of Lima, when it stopped at a traffic light and up to my window walked a poor girl selling plastic wrapped books.

Curious to what she was offering I looked to find that she was presenting me a self-help book with a title, something to the effect of,  'the 6 laws of success'.   So I asked if she had read it? A sort of a numb 'no' came back, as if I had asked a stupid question.

The point is how often, daily, we come close to an answer, maybe even having it within our hand, and because of a little plastic film we don't access potentially life-changing concepts.  Illusion may be the plastic film that shrink-wraps our brains into limiting our transcendence.