“Life is like a cup of coffee. Our careers, wealth, possessions, and degree in society are the cups. They are just tools and structures that contain or hold together the current story of our life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live.”
SITTING on a chair on a balcony with this morning’s coffee, with my favorite Hogwarts mug, the warm, aroma of a breath of fresh air, waiting for me to decide that I’m ready to drink it as is, or maybe just a bit cooler once I add a little milk; I am just as creamy as my other black personality or drinking an afternoon cup at room temp. It turns out that one of the joys of an excellent cup of coffee is to savor the taste as it is warmer.
What have I constantly believed? The first sip is the best; doesn’t get better than this. It turns out that if you’re patient enough, don’t gulp! If you acquire those taste buds, a cup of coffee will get better and better; the upshot life that the very promising coffee is “good to the last drop”—good! delicious! but it is not the same.
But, Says who?
“Experts” think microwave coffee tastes better than brewed coffee. An argument from two of my friends who called themselves “The Coffee Nerds” says microwave coffee tastes better than brewed coffee. I saw them microwave their coffees in a big mug as I watched them like a hawk (since I am also a coffee lover).
At the back of my mind, microwaving coffee happens when you heat it in the microwave can cause additional chemical reactions, leading to a bitter aftertaste. God knows I am above not microwaving my coffee as I know what the aftertaste tastes like. Even how many times I talked to them about the change of chemistry, profile, flavor, and the whole nine yards, they wouldn’t change their minds.
Adequately, maybe we like the differences or we think we do. Or maybe, indirect as it is, it doesn’t express, relatively, and we sure do like the temp, warmer.
Well, that is fine, okay, say my friends. You know, I do not mind when I catch them reheating; I just look when they add more sugar or cream, or vanilla or hazelnut flavor in the mug of their microwave coffee, even if I don’t like their preferences. I don’t think my friends would want to educate me, explaining the good stuff is sweet and complicated with different tastes of some combination of berries, flowers, spices, citrus, nuts, or varieties of chocolate. But.. They did. They’re dying to say, “Coffee tastes of so many things, depending on how it was processed and then roasted, either to bring out the various notes or to burn them away.” I nodded at them.
All we wanted was to experience coffee, but people have different tastes thinking their coffee preferences are much tastier and better than anyone else. That is how society fails to see what’s inside of every one of them as they are focusing on other people’s cups. Sometimes, we fail to enjoy the coffee if we keep comparing other coffees to anybody else’s cups. If I put this in reality, In a world full of people, we are like cups of different various coffee. The only thing I can say is savoring your coffee! Not your cup. What you want is to be happy and the happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.
Before I went home, I told them, “You know, Coffee is personal. Knock yourself out. Or, willingly, go ahead: drink up and be restored.”
Thank you, we will. They said.
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