Even if you have never seen the movie Forrest Gump, you have most likely heard one of the most famous sayings from it. In the movie, Forrest repeats what he has heard his mother say many times: "Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get." That saying has always made a lot of sense. When you open a box of chocolates, they all look pretty much the same. Until you bite into a piece, you don't know for sure what the chocolate shell contains.
I got to thinking about that saying tonight though, and it began to make less sense. While it's true that you don't know what flavor the chocolate you pick up will be, you do know that it will be sweet. Life is full of surprises, but they are definitely not all sweet.
This leads me to believe that life is more like a bag of trail mix. When you reach into a bag of trail mix, you do not know if you will pull out a salty nut, a sweet crunchy M&M, a crisp salty pretzel, or a honey glazed cluster of oats.
Life has many sweet moments. It also has its "salty" and even bitter moments. We would love for our lives to consist of nothing but sweet moments, but we know that will not happen during our life here on Earth. Think about that trail mix for a moment. Imagine eating a salty pretzel, then putting that M&M into your mouth. Doesn't it taste just a bit sweeter coming right after that salty pretzel?
Life is like a bag of trail mix... you never know what you're gonna get. But you do know the flavors will all balance each other out.
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I thought I had cornered the market on food analogies LOL!! But this really does bring it all home. We really do need to experience the bad to make the good stand out that much more. Too much chocolate and it starts tasting sickly sweet, but I can much on trail mix for hours! I never paid much attention to Forrest Gump's chocolate analogy but I do agree that life SHOULD be more like a bag of trail mix.
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