How can anybody argue with this philosophy?

Question:"Life is like a box of chocolates. It's a cheap thoughtless perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable becuase all you ever get back is another box of chocolates, so you're stuck with this unidentifiable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing left to eat. Sure, once in a while there's a peanut butter cup or an English toffee, but they're gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. So you end up with up with nothing but broken bits with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts. If you're desperate enough to eat that, all you have left is an empty box filled with useless brown paper wrappers."

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: "Life is like a box of chocolates. It's a cheap thoughtless perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable becuase all you ever get back is another box of chocolates, so you're stuck with this unidentifiable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing left to eat. Sure, once in a while there's a peanut butter cup or an English toffee, but they're gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. So you end up with up with nothing but broken bits with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts. If you're desperate enough to eat that, all you have left is an empty box filled with useless brown paper wrappers."

Comparing life with a box of chocolates is a very poor grade of philosophy.
Chocolates, unless you got box of chocolates costing no more than $1.59 for 2 1/2 lbs. are a sweet gift of pleasurable moments in ones life, unless, of course, you are allergic to chocolate.
Your examples of comparing the better tasting pieces to the not-so-tasty pieces with life is , however, correct, because we all experience good times and bad in each of our lives and some of life's experiences are hard to get through, but to dwell on them is a very negative attitude to take.
If we all would compare the end with your empty box with just paper in it, we might just want to blow up the world. A better way to see it is to ask yourself, "what do those empty wrappers represent to me?" and remember the good tasting pieces and how much you enjoyed them.

The true matter is in a packaging.Many of the wrappers can be fake.

australian koala chocolate brand is the best.

This cant be argued with , If your only talking chocolates,But you cant apply it as a philosophy without expanding on your metaphors.

To start with, not all life is a "cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift." There are parents who struggle and suffer and sacrifice to give their child life.
A box of chocolates is returnable... A life is not. Try bringing a baby back to the hospital... you're not going to have the same experience as bringing a box of Russel Stovers back to Target.
The rest of it is bull. To one person, a peanut butter cup is ambrosia, to another it is vile and disgusting.
Life is what you make it. Go through it with the mindset that all you will be left with is "an empty box filled with useless brown paper wrappers" and that is likely what you will have. Go through it with the idea that you will have a keepsake box that smells great and is filled with all you memories of time well spent and the people you spent it with, and you will be happy.

I am very suspicious of someone who gets his philosophy from Forrest Gump.

in your second sentence alone i can see some whholes in the thinking.

I know of people who have asked for the gift.

It is not prefunctory in any complete sense of the term

and chocolates cheap? have you bought any lately!

Chocolates are one of the greatest things ever made.

i can't argue with that.

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Life is not cheap, in fact, i find it happens to cost a lot of time and effort to have a good life and create good experiences. How can you NOT argue with that philosophy?

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Pherhaps the peanut butter cup is fleeting,as well as the toffee. May this be a reward? Sure, life is hard and rewards are fleeting?

Pherhaps your metaphors limit your construct/perspective of reality? WHy not enlarge your construct? You construct it, why not enlarge the box to the shop and maybe the street and city?

Turkish Delight is also another delightful treat.

I prefer vanilla

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Pluto

Obviously, you don't value life very much, and complain about most aspects of it. The very fact that life is fleeting should make you value it more. Anybody can (and most people will) argue with your 'philosophy', which I think is more a negative attitude than anything else. You sound like a grumpy, bitter old person. What's even sadder is that you're probably not old at all. Lighten up.

Yes. In a way , Life can be thought of as a box of chocolates BUT with a different angle of philosophy.
Except for some added workmanship every little chocolate is the same like every little human being...... sweet, desirable. The moment we get one box , slowly the 'sharing' disappears and we want to have all to ourselves. Then we get a little tired of it ( law of diminishing returns) and , at that point of time, we want to share . How nice it would have been IF we had shared it in the beginning itself! LIke the possessiveness and selfishness of the humans. When we are ready to offer something we find nobody is there to share .
at the end of it all life slips away from our hands leaving only a few empty thoughgts and momories and anger at oneslf for being so selfish.

OK so if you are going to compare chocolate to life you have to compare it right not like you did and make a bunch of generalizations. Life is like a box of chocolates because they are so many different kinds just like there are so many different kinds of life. There a different more accurate philosophy. You are not thinking right if you want to return a box of chocolates. by the way i ask for chocolate as a gift. And even when you finish the chocolate you have memories of what it tastes like and of the person who gave it to you.( or maybe a stomach ache)

feinny,

this is dr lowenstein, your psychiatrist. how many times have i told you to not stop taking your prozac.

also, how is the zyprexa working for you on your schizophrenia? by your writing, it seems like it hasnt kicked in yet. well, give it time as it appears your delusions of grandeur are more intense than most.

one more thing, have you laid off the dairy since your last visit?

Speak for yourself.
Let us start with chocolates.
They are not cheap where I live. When and where was the last country where one can get "cheap" chocolates? You havent shopped in 20? 30? 50? 100? years? lol.

Peanut butter cup? Nuts are more tasty. Try smoked almonds, with a dusting of powdered smoked chicory salt, freshly toasted pecans, Hawaiian Macadamias, freshly packed Nigeria or India high grade cashews.

You have to know your nuts. Be extremely picky and knowledgeable about all of them.

Here is one of my favorites:

Brazil Nut - The Brazil nut tree (Bertholettia excelsa) is a magnificent jungle tree of the steamy Amazon Rain Forest Basin of Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia. Over 150 feet tall with a trunk so big it will take 4 adults to outstretch their arms to encircle this tree trunk.

On the nuts alone, life is a magnificent creation if you choose to compare life to food.

These beautiful plants are a sight to behold, it is very humbling to understand where we get our food from, how nature provides, day after day.

How can one compare life with a box of chocolates?
With humility and gratitude to God and the planet we live in, and the labors of our brothers and sisters and friends.

Life is so diverse and inconsistent that it does not give itself to any comparison, least of all with a box of chocolates..... for instance, you do not find a hot one there.

I guess that is one way to look at life. Life is what you make of it. You can take the bad as bad or you can take it as an ability to change. You can take the good as what is expected or as a wonderful gift. You can take a box of chocolate as an unexpected pleasure with some pieces that you don't like but someone else might.

If you think a box of chocolates is just a box of chocolates, then you have bigger problems. But seriously, life is all about the good things and the bad. In order to enjoy the good, you have to experience the bad.