INTOXICATION.

I DON’T LIKE TOO MUCH COFFEE. {with a note of sarcasm}

Because a few well chosen words from the right person has the same effect as drinking buckets of coffee anyway..

I’d rather have a good conversation, in any case when a good conversation proves elusive I guess the coffee will have to do.

Don’t misunderstand me. I’m an avid coffee drinker, I’m trying to quit I guess. From a double shot caramel macchiato, mocha frappucino lite with whipped cream, White Mocha Frappuccino, Java Chip Frappuccino, Espresso Macchiato, capuccino, latte, or the good old nescafe 3-in-one to start the day.

Why drink coffee at all? What makes it so good to start the day? Make a small conversation with an old friend you just happen to pass on the street on the way to work, school,  or some errand.

Most people say, or rather most coffee drinkers would say the day just isn’t the same without a cup of coffee. It is the mildly stimulating effect of the caffeine in coffee that gets us going for the day. That is probably what appeals to most people about coffee and there is little doubt that the caffeine is a mildly addictive drug as well. Some would go as far as to say they can’t live without it. I guess we all want to perform better, be a better person. And somehow coffee does that however briefly.

Same goes for all the things we can’t live without cellphones, ipod, laptop,wrist watches, computer games, liquor, books, even a person. Those things/people we just can’t give up because we are better because of it/him/her. Somehow we feel a need to be intoxicated, ‘take a sip’ every now and then, just to make it through the day. Familiar huh?

I remember a phrase from the Dr. Jekyll/Mr.Hyde; Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Maybe if you are stripped of all you can’t live without what remains will be distinctly YOU. No illusions, no pretentions. To bare our souls each day. To detoxify, so to speak. Quite terrifying I’m sure. But I think we owe ourselves to be that kind of person. To be able to perform and get through all the clamor, the confusion the ups and downs of each day without any help but our own.

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