Life Lesson #5: Of Chocolates

There are a variety of  chocolates in life.

Friends aren't any different.

Best friends are like dark chocolates.

At first glance, they look like any normal piece of chocolate. As such, it is sometimes easy to overlook them and go for the ones with the richest toppings. But once you pick them up, you know there is a difference.

They may be bitter at first, but the sweetness and flavours you taste later on are enough for you to accept the bitterness as part of the package. In fact, you may start to enjoy the bitterness after a while.

Then there are those like milk chocolates.

I will always prefer dark chocolate over milk chocolate, any time any day. But they're pretty high on my list as well.

Milk chocolate buddies are sweet and smooth all-the-way. Little resistance in texture translates as little resistance in personality. They are easy to get along with, and pleasantly acceptable.

Fruit chocolates are pretty nice too.

These are the type that are full of surprises. They may look normal on the outside, but their personality is unforgettable. Sour, sweet, exotic, you name it, they've got it. They're likeable, but not necessarily warmly received by everyone. Not everyone enjoys surprises.

There is another kind that I've come to like over the years.

I call it uber-dark chocolate.

I don't really like bitter stuff unless it's bittersweet like dark chocolate. This is the type screams "bitter". For some apparent reason, it only seems incredibly bitter to you.

So you leave it alone and live life. But then, curiosity gets the better of you and you re-open the wrapping.

As you delve deeper into it, you find little pieces of ingredients you'd never expect to find before in a piece of uber-dark chocolate.

After a while, you actually start to enjoy it.

But when you think back on your past experiences, you cannot find a reasonable explanation as to why you disliked it so much in the first place.

This type of chocolate is one of the leading shockers in chocolate-town.

But these type of friends are also one of the hardest to find in life.

Often, we are at a loss for words when we wonder why we did or didn't do something in the past. We can't explain our behaviour, we can't explain the change.

Defining ourselves in 1+1=2 equations can stop us from meeting some of the greatest friends in life.

So before putting a person into a mould, let us appreciate the different layers of a person, because there is always more than meets the eye.

And chocolate is the best proof.