Life is way too short to fear the consequences of a little pleasure. Your body is not a fragile machine—it’s a wonderfully weird, talkative friend. Every color, every texture, every little oddity is just your system saying, “Hey, I’m working hard over here!”
So go ahead. Eat that chocolate. Savor it. Let the dark, beautiful pigments do their thing. And when you see that telltale sign later, don’t run to WebMD in a cold sweat.
Instead, lean into the fun. You’ve just learned something new about your own biology. You’re now about 7% braver and 12% more knowledgable than you were five minutes ago. That’s the stuff of heroes.
Now go forth, eat your weight in cacao, and embrace the glorious, sometimes-dark mystery of being alive. You’ve got this.
