“Life is like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you’re going to get.“
– Forrest Gump, 1994
I used to think I liked all chocolates, then I grew up and got to test and taste out different versions of chocolates to start to develop some sort of taste preference. You know, sorting out the dark chocolates from the really dark chocolates. The difference between, say, one of Cadbury’s products and a trusted Ferrero Rocher.
And eventually, life stopped being like a box of random chocolates, but more of a chase to find the right box of chocolates to make things sweet. Like finding a needle in a bunch of haystacks.
Some of the boxes start off sweet, and then the more you eat through the box, the more the bitterness begins to fill your senses and you struggle to even remember the sweet beginnings.
Others begin bitter but you read the box labels and you know that there’s a sweet chocolate somewhere in it. You just don’t know when you’re going to get it. So, you eat through the box of bitter after bitter bites, holding on to that phantom hope that you stumble on the sweet bit, even if its just one bite.
Then, you have the boxes that are truly random. The rollercoaster box of bitter and sweet, sour and sugary. Every bite is a different experience, an emotional ride of whatever it is Life can throw at you. On some days, its just pure sweetness from the morning to night. And then on other days, its a straight week of bitterness. I mean, the bitterness varies and some days are better than the next but the taste stays consistent.
Life is like a box of chocolates. And I’m currently eating through one.
And it has been an experience.
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