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like adding cream to a soup
Life was not always this way.
Sure, you wake up every day wishing for a bit more sleep. You wonder if the day will be much different than the day before. Usually it all just blends in together, like adding cream to a soup. My mind wanders.
It was a Tuesday, like any other.
I was nursing a hangover and working on my prep list before our inevitable hell-hole of a lunch rush.
If there are two things most people know about me is this:
My fear of commitment and my distaste for candy.
That was until I saw the brown package. We get packages all the time. This one felt special.
James, my co-worker, ripped the box open exclaiming he was trying a new brand of gummy bears, and I immediately lost interest.
"Candy? Jesus.."
I moved back into my ebb and flow.
Meanwhile, looking over at my co-workers reaching their hands deep into this 5lb bag of gummy bears like it was kettle corn at a state fair.
I resisted.
I'll admit it.
I was proud.
Too proud.
I waited so no one would see me, slipped my hand into the bag and pulled out four colorful, gummy bears.
With one motion, I popped them all in my mouth and begin to chew with the expectation of mediocrity.
Only this...
this was something different.
Everything was changing -- my world, turning on its head.
At first I was angry. "It can't be! It's candy! You don't like candy!"
But alas, my heart grew softer.
Something inside me began to change.
Bursts of real fruit flavor. Incredible mouth-feel. Pleasant after-taste.
It was this day that everything changed,
and I am a better man for it.
June 2017 · Grocery and Gourmet Food · verified purchase