Coffee

For over a year now, I've been trying to give up coffee. I discovered it affects my heart in a rather negative way and therefore decided it is best if I don't partake. However, I'm sadly addicted. Granted, I have made drastic progress in this area. Instead of one or two cups a day, it is now generally less than one cup a week. Nevertheless, I find I am still fond of the black poison.

Why do I like coffee so much? (I ask myself on many occasions) Though I do admit to having acquired the taste from a young age, I believe it is more than just my palate that craves this rustic brew. I have to say I enjoy nearly everything coffee represents. It is both very stereotypical and also extremely versatile...like my personality, I would say. Though one could (and I have) sit in a coffee shop for hours enjoying a single cup of capaccino, one might just as easily rush into Starbucks to grab a latte before a morning meeting. Coffee is wonderful at breakfast time with biscuits and jam, but is just as splendid in the evening with cheesecake. It also makes a good afternoon drink when the day is longer than one's attention span. I also enjoy a cup of coffee as I sit and ponder the day, read a novel, or write. Both relaxing and stimulating, I find it a choice beverage.

Not only is coffee versatile, it is also rich and sophisticated in it's versatility. For example, one can have whole conversations involving the intricacies of said drink. The question of how one takes one's coffee has developed quite dramatically over the past decade. Though there are still those traditionalists who take it with "cream and sugar" or simply "black,"there are truly an endless number of answers one might give to a question like this. In fact, there are so many answers one might give, I will not even "go there" except to say I prefer espresso with milk and lots of foam. No sugar, thanks.

In conclusion (for I really must go tend to my child), given coffee's amazing attributes and qualities, I simply do not know if I will ever be able to completely purge it from my consumption. But really, I do try....