As my husband ran into the store, I asked him for a chocolate bar.  He came back with a bag of Dove candies...Damn him. 

I tore them open, and reached in....I have a compulsive disorder with even numbers, so I grabbed two.  Then two more.  I glanced down quickly to the inside of the wrapper of the third candy that I opened to read the message inside.  It read, Be Careful.  Now all the others say things like, Giving a smile is better then a dozen roses, so this seemed a bit out of character.  I had already balled the aluminum up in my hand when it occurred to me what I had just read.  I very carefully open the paper back up with suspense and read the message again.  This time, my eyes saw the message, Be Fearless.  Weird.  This troubled me a great deal.  Why did my brain first see something that was a warning...like I was about to face an emanate threat, and then when I reread the foil, it told me to be brave.  What was happening that I needed to have so much preparation and courage?

This message bothered me all through the evening.  What could my subconscious be trying to tell me?  I thought about it again that night as I lay in bed.  The next morning I took two more candies from the torn bag...I opened carefully.  This message read - Don't think so much about it.  WHAT???  How does it know???  It's like the Dove Bar people are watching me and reading my every thought!  I had one more candy to open.  I opened it with great caution...what will it tell me next?  Will it be another warning?  Will it be a sign?  Am I schizophrenic and think the candy bar wrappers are actually talking to me?  As I unwrapped the foil, the message was revealed...it said - Follow your intuition. 

OMG...which intuition?  That I should be careful and fearless?  That someone is trying to secretly connect with me through candy wrappers or that I am, in fact crazy???  I'm going to need more specific information Dove.

I think the conclusion that I have drawn so late in the day on this snowy Sunday afternoon, is that chocolate rules my life.  When you love something so much that it starts to speak to your subconscious and has the power to control your every thought...it may be time to quit...quit before your life becomes Death by Chocolate.


P.S.  I know I'm not crazy...Sir Antony Hopkins said so in the movie Proof.  His character said, "Crazy people don’t sit around wondering if they're crazy."  I'll stick with that.