That's Life - A box of chocolates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So... life is like a box of chocolates?

 

Well, let's see.

 

What happens when I eat a box of chocolates...

 

I start by looking for the little bit of paper that tells you what's in the chocolates.  And, of course, I can't find it.  

 

OK, never mind.  I'm brave.  I take risks.

 

So I bite into the first chocolate, and it's something disgusting like that weird crunchy stuff that's looks like transparent dirty water.  So I throw the other half out.

 

I try another one, and it's just plain chocolate, and it's slightly white on the edges, because it's a bit old.

 

Third time lucky?

 

It's toffee.  And it's too sweet and too hard and gets lodged in one of molars at the back of my mouth and I have to dig out a hard lump of the filling from my tooth with my fingernail.  

 

And so it goes, until, finally, about two thirds of the way through the box, I find one I like.  

 

It's sweet, but not too sweet.  Soft but not too soft.  The outer coating of chocolate is fresh and hard, but not too hard.

 

So I look for another chocolate that's the same shape, the same kind.

 

And there's only one.

 

See?  I finally find what I like in life, and there isn't enough of it.

 

Forrest Gump's bitch of a mother was right.

 

 

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