Chocolate

Hmm.. bittersweet chocolate... the best ever. It makes u think. How can something be bittersweet? I was thinking about it (and eating the chocolate) and then I realised... the chocolate is sweet when u first take a bite but it leaves a bitter aftertaste, so, really, bittersweet. And that got me thinking... hmm... some things are like that aren't they? so sweet at first, then really bitter once it's gone, it's like, the chocolate is good while u have it, but once it's eaten, and gone, the bitter taste is a reminder of how good it was. It's a reminder of what you once had. That's the beautiful part, that's bittersweet chocolate.

There was another part of this post but it seems to have eluded me. oh yes, it comes back to me now, bear with me, this is unconventional as a way of posting, but who cares? *shrugs*

I was reading the bonesetter's daughter by Amy Tan yesterday night and there was a particular part in it that I never did really understand. It talks about the four manifestations of beauty. I won't tell u all about it, tht would be a spoiler, but the fourth manifestation is effortless, the highest level, the simplicity of everything, of just looking and, seeing and not making assumptions. This level was likened to falling in love. The main character says, "lately I have felt this beauty of effortlessness in all things". and the girl replies, "the effortlessness with which one falls in love." And I was always like, wat? effortlessness? love? no way, and then I was lying down in bed, about to fall into the deep abyss of sleep and then it occurred to me, falling in love is effortless, it just happens, u cannot place the time or place or moment. it just happens. And you can't stop it. And it's beautiful, because that is wat it is, u cannot create it, u cannot force it, it's just that, effortless. Because the thing is, it takes NO EFFORT at all to fall in love, u just fall, and sometimes, u don't know you're falling until you have fallen. That's the beauty of it, so carefree, and natural. so effortless.