THE NARRATIVE ARC

Change in the Air: Writing Prompt

How are you improving your life? yourself? your body? your attitude? work habits?

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Everyone has a bad habit or two, and most of us have a few stories about changing those habits. It’s not easy though. Recently, I fell into my old standard “chocolate habit,” and please don’t tell me dark chocolate is healthy and I can have a small amount. It will be good for me.

Yes, right. But that isn’t the kind of chocolate I like. Milk chocolate with anything added in is my go-to. Think chocolate-covered pretzels. Raspberry bits in milk chocolate. Peanut butter cups! Chocolate plus anything.

Recently, I noticed Tik Tok kept sending me these ads from their Tik Tok store about Dubai chocolates. My friend Kelli laughed and said “Tik Tok doesn’t send me ads about chocolate!”

Well.

In the Dubai chocolate advertisements, the marketeers — often in pairs — receive their ridiculously expensive package from the Tik Tok shop. They unpackage the chocolate, which arrives beautifully assembled with a little ice pack on top to keep it cold. Out of the box and wrapper it came.

Cue the woman with beautiful clean hands holding the milk chocolate in her fingers. Lovingly! Ah, those…