Tja, det betyder att du inte vet vad en choklad smakar förrän du biter den. Och i slutändan har du smakat om du tyckte om det eller inte.
Detta gäller samma för livet. Du vet inte riktigt vad varje dag i ditt liv kommer att vara tills du lever det. Det kan vara stor erfarenhet eller kan vara värre, men du skulle inte veta det förrän du lever det.
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When you open a box of chocolates, there is a variety of flavors available. Problem is, since they are covered in chocolate, you can't really tell what any given piece of chocolate is going to taste like. You're going to eat a chocolate (you know you are! admit it! you want chocolate!), but you won't know what you are getting until you bite into it - and then it's done. Like it or not, you've tasted it.
You never know what life is going to give you. But you live nevertheless. So every day - every new experience - is something you really don't know about until you actually live it. It may not be an experience you like. It may be the greatest experience ever. But you don't know until you've lived it, and by then it's too late to not live it.
Forrest använder denna citat för att exemplifiera livets slumpmässighet.
Krediter till R.M. ,
Forrest has had such a random, eclectic life - much like the variety of chocolates which is in the box. And Forrest, like someone without the box lid, hasn't been going through life with any sort of plan, he's just been picking up the next chocolate and just finding out if it's a toffee or something else once he has eaten it.