If any of you have read the threads on my life story you will see that I love talking about chocolate:
Tom Hanks made a humorous, but profound statement in the movie Forrest Gump Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.
Life truly is like a box of chocolates, for when you open a box of chocolates up it is filled with an array of chocolates; either mil, white or dark chocoate, filled with caramel, different types of cream, roman nougats (the pink filled center), some chocolates have nuts, some are truffles, and some are just plain solid chocolate.
Over my years of eating chocolate I have noticed several things. First, when I open a box of chocolates, I usually pinch every chocolate searching for those pieces I love. Second, if the chocolate is an unfamiliar one I will only take a small bite from it, just to make sure it is something I will enjoy. However, if it is a chocolate that I know is 100% safe then I will put the whole thing in my mouth, devouring it as fast as I could.
Life is an adventure, each event, whether it is a friendship or a hardship, trial or reward, is a piece of chocolate. Put all the chocolates we accumulate over life and that makes up our own box of chocolates. My box of chocolates is unique, no one else will ever share the exact same pieces I have. Some of the hardships I have gone through have yielded pieces of chocolate I love the taste of, so even though the trials and tribulations were painful and nasty at the time I tasted them, I am glad to have them in my box for I would have had a totally different box of chocolates if I hadnt. And it might have not been as pleasurable as the one I am creating right now.
Most boxes of chocolate sadly now have a diagram of the box helping the consumer avoid the pieces of chocolate they want, and go directly for the pieces they want. Where is the adventure in that? There is no risk if one could avoid every hardball thrown at them in life then they will never experience life to its fullest. Part of the adventure of eating a box of chocolate is going into the unknown world of chocolates.
Suggestion: Buy two boxes of chocolate. Open one of them, and throw away the diagram, do not use it at all. With the other one, leave it untouched, do not open the box, and imagine that as someones life you are holding. Perhaps you could have fun and imagine what type of life that person had, maybe you could use that diagram from the first box and use that as your guide. Construct a life from that diagram; I mean when you are done that diagram will be in there because that is your biography.
When I first started my research I went to one of the finest chocolate shops around- Godiva Chocolatier. The guy answering my questions was very patient, and poliete that I could just not walk away empty handed. So with temptation and a little guilt getting the best of me I bought a small box of Godiva chocolates. When I got to my car I did not even investigate the kind of chocolate I reached for, I skipped the pinch test, and popped one in my mouth. It was a raspberry filled chocolate, not my favorite, but I have had worse. The way I ate the chocolate is how we should handle life.
thats all I have typed on my computer right now.
here are some thoughts I have:
1. Having a box of chocolates filled only with caramel is plain, dull, its predictable, the joy about an orginal box of chocolates is its uniqueness, not knowing what the piece of chocolate you picked up will be. Taking the chance, the risk of biting into the unknown piece of chocolate.
2. One thing, at least I do when I first open a box of chocolate is pinch the chocolates until I see a piece that I want. I avoid all the pieces that I dont want because I dont like the taste, I dont want to endure the aftertaste, even though it is the pieces of chocolates that we usually despise that makes us unique.
3. I am sure it is safe to say that the most popular piece of chocolate found in a box of chocolate is the caramel piece. If one was to take a survey of chocolics, it would be at the top of nearly everyones list. However, does that mean that everyone MUST have a piece of caramel in their box of chocolate? Absolutely not! For there is that popular saying, What is popular is not always right, and what is right is not always popular. The world tells us to love caramel, the caramel piece could be looked at as a sin, as a repeated sin that many of us come back to. It could be a worldly thing
Now I have been trying to figure out the best way to include God in the equation. And I have found a way. This may need some touch up work for I am just typing it right now:
On every box of chocolate there is for questions or comments please call and then a number. That number is God. I have never called that number personally, and I am sure a small percentage of the people that have tried a box of chocolates have used this number as well. Even if there was a problem with their box of chocolate they ignore the fact that they could call a direct line to the manufactuer. the direct linet that can help solve any questions or problems you are having. Instead of calling the direct line people gripe to everyone else but the manufactuer.
The same thing goes for life. When things dont go there way with their box of "chocolates" they talk to their friends, family members, or some other people. They take their frustrations out on the world. People ignore the fact that the people that created them has a direct line that is open 24/7 and that line was created for them. When people have a problem they try to solve it themselves (by acting as their own manufactuer)...
that would be how it would go...or something like that...
Tom Hanks made a humorous, but profound statement in the movie Forrest Gump Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.
Life truly is like a box of chocolates, for when you open a box of chocolates up it is filled with an array of chocolates; either mil, white or dark chocoate, filled with caramel, different types of cream, roman nougats (the pink filled center), some chocolates have nuts, some are truffles, and some are just plain solid chocolate.
Over my years of eating chocolate I have noticed several things. First, when I open a box of chocolates, I usually pinch every chocolate searching for those pieces I love. Second, if the chocolate is an unfamiliar one I will only take a small bite from it, just to make sure it is something I will enjoy. However, if it is a chocolate that I know is 100% safe then I will put the whole thing in my mouth, devouring it as fast as I could.
Life is an adventure, each event, whether it is a friendship or a hardship, trial or reward, is a piece of chocolate. Put all the chocolates we accumulate over life and that makes up our own box of chocolates. My box of chocolates is unique, no one else will ever share the exact same pieces I have. Some of the hardships I have gone through have yielded pieces of chocolate I love the taste of, so even though the trials and tribulations were painful and nasty at the time I tasted them, I am glad to have them in my box for I would have had a totally different box of chocolates if I hadnt. And it might have not been as pleasurable as the one I am creating right now.
Most boxes of chocolate sadly now have a diagram of the box helping the consumer avoid the pieces of chocolate they want, and go directly for the pieces they want. Where is the adventure in that? There is no risk if one could avoid every hardball thrown at them in life then they will never experience life to its fullest. Part of the adventure of eating a box of chocolate is going into the unknown world of chocolates.
Suggestion: Buy two boxes of chocolate. Open one of them, and throw away the diagram, do not use it at all. With the other one, leave it untouched, do not open the box, and imagine that as someones life you are holding. Perhaps you could have fun and imagine what type of life that person had, maybe you could use that diagram from the first box and use that as your guide. Construct a life from that diagram; I mean when you are done that diagram will be in there because that is your biography.
When I first started my research I went to one of the finest chocolate shops around- Godiva Chocolatier. The guy answering my questions was very patient, and poliete that I could just not walk away empty handed. So with temptation and a little guilt getting the best of me I bought a small box of Godiva chocolates. When I got to my car I did not even investigate the kind of chocolate I reached for, I skipped the pinch test, and popped one in my mouth. It was a raspberry filled chocolate, not my favorite, but I have had worse. The way I ate the chocolate is how we should handle life.
thats all I have typed on my computer right now.
here are some thoughts I have:
1. Having a box of chocolates filled only with caramel is plain, dull, its predictable, the joy about an orginal box of chocolates is its uniqueness, not knowing what the piece of chocolate you picked up will be. Taking the chance, the risk of biting into the unknown piece of chocolate.
2. One thing, at least I do when I first open a box of chocolate is pinch the chocolates until I see a piece that I want. I avoid all the pieces that I dont want because I dont like the taste, I dont want to endure the aftertaste, even though it is the pieces of chocolates that we usually despise that makes us unique.
3. I am sure it is safe to say that the most popular piece of chocolate found in a box of chocolate is the caramel piece. If one was to take a survey of chocolics, it would be at the top of nearly everyones list. However, does that mean that everyone MUST have a piece of caramel in their box of chocolate? Absolutely not! For there is that popular saying, What is popular is not always right, and what is right is not always popular. The world tells us to love caramel, the caramel piece could be looked at as a sin, as a repeated sin that many of us come back to. It could be a worldly thing
Now I have been trying to figure out the best way to include God in the equation. And I have found a way. This may need some touch up work for I am just typing it right now:
On every box of chocolate there is for questions or comments please call and then a number. That number is God. I have never called that number personally, and I am sure a small percentage of the people that have tried a box of chocolates have used this number as well. Even if there was a problem with their box of chocolate they ignore the fact that they could call a direct line to the manufactuer. the direct linet that can help solve any questions or problems you are having. Instead of calling the direct line people gripe to everyone else but the manufactuer.
The same thing goes for life. When things dont go there way with their box of "chocolates" they talk to their friends, family members, or some other people. They take their frustrations out on the world. People ignore the fact that the people that created them has a direct line that is open 24/7 and that line was created for them. When people have a problem they try to solve it themselves (by acting as their own manufactuer)...
that would be how it would go...or something like that...
