Life is like a box of chocolates in so many ways. If not correctly made with the right ingredients, a chocolate may not taste right, look obscure or even lead to illness. Similarly, if a chocolate was not placed in a beautiful, extravagant wrapping, it would usually mean the contents exhibit characteristics of being cheap, nasty or inedible. This in any case is close to worthless, but still worth what it is capable to be exploited for. Equally, if a chocolate was not kept under the right conditions, it would melt, freeze or decay. Finally, if a chocolate were ever to escape the realms of its confined enclosure it would surely perish. For the world around it truly is a terrible place, where around every corner is the possibility of consumption, or worse, being crushed by the oppression of those who similarly have escaped what held them in place. This is the real reason why life is like a box of chocolates…

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