Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you’re going to get....
Oh, by the way, 3-4 chocolates in the box will harm you very badly.
One of the chocolates is lethal, It will kill you if you eat it.
Every one of the chocolates in the box will cost lots of money.
While the box of chocolates is a gift of love, today,...
You will need to keep paying for each one repeatedly forever.
Another poster reminded me of a quote I have on my homepage and it is so apropos in today's world:
"It is incredible how as soon as a people becomes subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and so willingly that one is led to say … that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement."
Etienne de la Boetie - 16th century political philosopher