Box of Chocolates or Bed of roses

"Life is like a box of chocolates, you'll never know what you'll get next". Well, that quote from the award winning movie , Forrest Gump, seemed to have stuck in my head ever since I stepped out from the cinema say nearly 15 years ago...

But besides that , life is also not always a bed of roses....the bed has more thorns in them then the nectar laden, perfume drenched roses.

Roses being the wonderfull, joyfull things in our life while the thorns remind us of its challenges. A carefull florist may avoid some of the thorns while plucking the roses, but now and then, a thorn might prick her till she bleeds.

But she doesn't cut down the rose plant because of the thorns. She may just heal her fingers with an antiseptic and a band aid while moving on smelling and plucking more roses.

In life, its the same , now and then there would be thorns or challenges ,they might hurt , some big ones, some small ones.

Some might hurt greater , some might cut deeper . We move on with an band aid or a simple sucking of the fingers.

Worrying about the next thorn would sometimes make us forget to smell those roses.

And of course not forgeting the chocolates....