A Jar of Nutella

It’s nearly 3 am, but my jar of Nutella is loyally sitting next to me. The shiny silver of the dessert spoon is reflecting the street lights that are pushing their terribly yellow light through my sheer drapes. It is quiet. My cat is curled up on the couch and I can hear her little snores. It is dark. I’ve contemplated putting a flame to my candles, but that would require me to move. Moving would mean that I would have to leave my chair which is conveniently placed right beside my gas operating heater. I love post soviet countries.

Thankfully I have a bottle of Nabeghlavi mineral water standing beside my laptop – Nutella makes me thirsty. In fact, if you look at the Mac and the Nabeghlavi bottle which is a green and yellow colour, you feel like they should never be separated. I do love a good colour combination. What I don’t love is how Scrivener (the program I am using to type this) is underlying the way I spell “colour” with its bold red dots. I am Canadian, I can’t help it. I actually think color looks better than colour. ‘Colour’ is too complicated, and I love simplicity. But I am going off on a tangent here. I was originally excited to write to you about my jar of Nutella.

Why?

Well, Nutella is great. That’s the simple, short version. The more complicated, long version goes as follows: Because Nutella tastes so good, that means it is also very bad for you. A slice of bread with a rather thin layer of nutella on top will give you energy and it will help your children’s growth and enthusiasm for soccer, but when you’re eating out of the jar with a spoon at nearly 3 in the morning, it’s as if you’re asking for diabetes. That being said, I still think it is necessary. It is necessary to let go of all the health worries, of all the social worries and whatever other worries you might have, and just relax.

Eating Nutella out of a jar once in a blue moon at nearly 3 am is not going to kill you, unless of course you are a diabetic or have allergies towards Hazelnuts. But if you’re a fairly healthy person, it’s not going to cause any harm. Sure, your sugar levels will skyrocket and you probably won’t sleep for the rest of the night, but as long as you don’t have to get up at 6 am the next morning to head to work, you’re allowed. I actually believe it’s healthy. Perhaps you’ll gain .02 pounds or lose a bit of sleep, but I stand my ground. I still think it’s healthy – emotionally.

The key point here is to only do it once in a blue moon. Routine is good for you. It helps you be productive, productivity helps you achieve goals, achieving goals makes you happy and so on and so forth. However, there is a but. Every now and then, you have to let yourself do something that is seen as bad within the eyes of our pleasant society. (You get Nutella points if you picked up on my sarcasm there.) Once in a blue moon, do something that makes you feel rebellious. Of course I don’t mean for you to go steal cars, rob people or whatever other crazy ideas might go through your head. If you have such thoughts forming, please stay indoors. Chances are, you won’t do anything too illegal if you stay indoors. Rather, dance naked, stay up all night watching movies, bake up a storm, cook for an army and then eat it all yourself (perhaps share with your neighbour or whoever), do graffiti on your walls (just make sure the walls are your own, not your landlords). The fact of the matter is, simply, doing something that breaks our routine, makes us feel alive. As much as I love being productive and working hard to achieve that which makes me happy, I also love nights when my jar of nutella is slowly emptying and I know tomorrow I will sleep most of the day. Nights like these, when everyone is sleeping and I’m on a sugar high.

2 Responses to “A Jar of Nutella”

1. Alana says:

   November 12, 2009 at 06:27

   I loved this, I didn’t realize it, but I seriously needed someone to give me permission to have a mini-Nutella binge, it’s been so long, and Nutella is so, so, so good. Especially at three in the morning.

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2. K says:

   November 12, 2009 at 15:43

   Haha, I’m glad someone is with me on this one! I was starting to think that I might be the only one who is crazy enough to go on a Nutella binge at 3 in the morning. You’ve just erased my fear of going insane!

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