Chocolate represents the end result of all the passion we put into things in life.

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Talking about "like water for chocolate" without a doubt brings to mind the memory of that famous movie and a song that is like the flag of Sexteto Juventud in which they say "you are candy chocolate, you are the joy of my life".

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It brings back a lot of good memories for me and I want to talk a little about what it means with that attitude.

This essentially, this phrase, is used to describe someone who is about to burst into emotion or anger (because it can also be used for anger).

This metaphor makes an analogy as if your feelings were simmering little by little, in the same way as one puts a pot of water to heat it when preparing to cook chocolate.

And when we see that the water is boiling and making a lot of bubbles, then we see that that person is like water for chocolate, that he is about to lose control of his emotions, he is about to overflow and this is what carries the meaning of this phrase.

If we start to dig a little deeper, I believe that boiling water represents emotions, the intensity of emotions that little by little are heating up, taking more and more shape until they boil and boil.

Chocolate would be like the result of that entire process.

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Then it would be like representing the emotions and well when all the bubbles are like this at their maximum boiling point, the moment in which all the emotions are uncontrolled and are overflowing, boiling.

The question with this is: how many times have we not found ourselves in this situation?.

It has happened to me many times in particular when I find myself drawing my arts, my pixel art, that little by little I build the figure from a stain, because pixel art is like sculpting a work in digital way, just as sculptors grab and they sculpt the marble with a chisel.

With my mouse pointer I draw and sculpt the shape through a figure and I feel how little by little that irregular shape that I capture on the canvas is gaining meaning and is like breathing.

I imagine as if it were a creature that I am giving life to, whether it is a landscape, an object that I am drawing, which can be a vehicle, a key, a house, a chair or a table as I have had to do.

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Little by little I am giving it personality and I feel that the drawing is speaking to me and every time I add a pixel and add a color, I feel like the water is about to boil and it is gaining more and more strength and is ready to create that chocolate that is my final art.

In addition to the satisfaction I feel when finishing the work, I can tell you that seeing this work completed is like also part of that result of that chocolate that I eat and that I enjoy seeing the details it has, how beautiful I think it is.

I even allow myself to tell you that the process goes beyond this because later, when I see the criticism and comments I receive from each of the drawings I make, it fills me with a lot of satisfaction and then the water boils again despite that it has already been done and that the process has already finished.

So I think this is something very beautiful that fills us with satisfaction, with emotions and that each person has to learn to distinguish and enjoy their life, because part of doing so is what makes us grow, what makes us more human and what that makes us better people.

Tell me what processes you have to make your chocolate and obviously I am referring to the experiences that you have had in life, and that you want to share with me below in the comments.

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