I opened the nugget of chocolate with anticipation, not knowing what charming platitude it would hold for me today (each of these individually wrapped Dove dark chocolate splendors have a “promise message” cleverly hidden inside, such as “Today is a bubble bath day.”). My message today was “Hey, why not?”

It was such a friendly remark, I found myself going along with it before I could say anthropomorphize. Then I caught myself. Realization: I’m taking advice from a chocolate bar…but it wasn’t even that– I’m taking advise from the wrapper of a chocolate bar.

And with that, the foolishness was over.

On a more hopeful note, I don’t exclusively read messages on chocolate wrappers. I’ve branched out recently and re-read Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis (see previous post). Reading it again was like returning from a dreadsome journey to find some lover, long thought gone or dead, to be waiting up for you, and she even more beautiful than you had thought possible. It was a lovely thing.

You should read it.