You would think that chocolate is universal. Something that is
everywhere, that everyone can enjoy. It’s not. There are people who have
never tried it, even the farmers who break their backs to harvest cocoa
beans for a few cents in the Ivory Coast. Watch their faces light up
when they eat it for the first time.
Watching them marvel about this sweet food that comes from the beans
they harvest is amazing to me. First, because it’s a joy to see their
faces. Then, because it’s a stark reminder of how amazingly lucky we
are.
For us westerners chocolate is just one more thing. It’s
inconsequential. We like to eat it, sometimes we get delighted by it for
a minute. But more often than not it’s just one more snack to stuff our
fat faces with. We don’t think about it and the incredible effort and
resources that are required to make it. We take it for granted along
with the other billion foods and the other billion other technologies
and privileges we didn’t fight for.
I’m not posting this to be preachy. This comes from a place of true
wonder, to remind myself about my own comfortable numbness and the
hundred things that I take for granted every day. One day something
fatal will happen and then you will realise how much time you
wasted whining about this or that rather than enjoying the infinite
amount of awesome (yes, everything is awesome!) stuff that exists around
you. I need some chocolate right now. LOL
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Geek Out Cocoa Farmers Trying Chocolate For The First Time Is A Must-Watch
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