Unusual sweets

I remember last summer when we got together with friends. Back then, without masks and antiseptics, indoors. They brought the simplest food – cherries, some slices, a bottle of wine. No frills. Yes, and why?

We sat and remembered funny stories, events we had gone through together, and talked about how nice it was to just get together like that and realize you had friends.

Shortly before our meeting, a girl from our company was visiting relatives in Russia and brought a box of chocolates for us. It would seem that, well, candy, ours tastes better. Today, some foreign sweets no longer surprise anyone.

But it was unusual candy.

It turned out that during her stay in her home country, our friend met several people. In the couple of weeks they spent together, they became good buddies. You know, that’s what happens sometimes when you meet new people, and you feel like you’ve spent your whole life with them.

So these people handed us a box of chocolates. Especially for us from far away Ekaterinburg, strangers bought the best chocolates in their city. And passed them on to us. Just like that. As a token of friendship. Wishing you the best and hoping to see you again someday.

We were quiet. A small box of sweets suddenly became the biggest treasure in the world. Not because they were the benchmark for chocolates in the Urals. Not because they were handed down to us by strangers, and that seemed a little unusual. And because behind this gesture there was something so good and human, something that we forget in our daily lives.

We didn’t even know these people, and they had only heard about us from a friend. But the warmth and kindness with which they treated us, how much goodwill they put into these chocolates, touched us just to tears.

You can’t imagine how thrilled we were to open this box! How we shared them equally and smacked when the chocolate melted in our mouths. Honestly, it was the most delicious candy in the world!

Just like that, a blue box with the inscription “Ural meteorite” united the hearts of people absolutely distant from each other in a nice good bond.

We hope to meet physically at some point! But even if that doesn’t happen, it doesn’t matter. These people are now in our heart.