Crunchy on the outside
"Sit down, please." He offered me a box with two chocolates inside it.
One chocolate was crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside. The second chocolate, rather deceptively, was soft on the outside, but hard on the inside.
"Choose one," he aid. "It's time to end your surface obsessions. The only way to know is to die, to overcome, to sacrifice, and ultimately to become the very target you seek. Success is death, fear is life. Do you understand me?"
"No," I responded, uncertainly.
He smiled.
I realized at that moment that the greatest act of love was complete self-sacrifice, pure and flawless, in every gesture, without restraint. Time to die.
-IAT