Life is like.....

...a box of chocolates, of course! Who doesn't love chocolate?! Well, I am sure there are people who don't like it. There are people who cannot have it. For this delectable blog, we will not be savoring in the ooey, gooey goodness of chocolate. I will be referring to the analogy that was made famous by Forrest Gump.

In the movie, he sat on the bench with his infamous comfortable shoes on his feet. He asked the woman next him if she'd like a chocolate. During that scene, he made a statement that sounds pretty close to this:" Life's like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." I've come across many analogies that describe life, but this one is my favorite.

I actually despise getting a box of chocolates if I cannot choose which favors I want. There's something disheartening about getting the gross piece. I become disappointed if I select a piece that has coconut or the disgusting, repulsing, aritificially flavored strawberry filling inside. After I choose a disgusting piece, someone else chooses the sticky, yet, creamy, caramel filled chocolate. How dare s/he! That was supposed to be my piece of chocolate.

One day, I thought about why I don't like receiving the gross pieces of chocolate. The easy answer is that I don't like eating foods that don't taste good. However, I think it goes deeper than this. Earlier, I mentioned that I prefer to choose my own flavors. I prefer stability and I don't like unwanted surprises. When I choose which chocolate goes into my chocolate box, I know that I will like each piece. I think this is tied to my hatred toward the unknown.

The unknown is scary and life has a way of throwing surprises when you least expect them to come. Is the box of chocolate supposed to be a metaphor of life? It is symbolic of something that is larger than myself? I don't know the answer to this, but I do know that I enjoy when I pick the piece of chocolate that speaks my love language. Some days, the love language will be spoken; other days will taste like articifially flavored strawberry. Regardless, life is, indeed, like a box of chocolates. You really don't know which piece you'll select next.