“By the time, I add cream and sugar and walk back to my desk, the coffee is only mildly warm at best. Does the coffee warmer even work?” I started the Monday morning with this rant to my colleague at work. He nodded and said, “But…” I really wasn’t finished complaining. So I simply continued. “Not to mention how bad this coffee tastes! Decaf or not Decaf, this dark black brown liquid simply lacks any substance. Where is the coffee in this coffee?” “But you can just stop drinking it. Perhaps you can get some tea from home or have the green tea that they have here?” “No, Tea is sacred for me. Unless it’s done the Indian way, no tea can ever match its nectar like properties. This coffee, this coffee… is just so disgusting.” “You do know that you have choice and that you can voluntarily stop yourself from having this experience everyday. Get some instant coffee, stop at star bucks on your way here. Get some tea from home. You have choice; you just have to make it.” “This choice thing you talk about. It’s interesting. It seems like that you are proposing that I do have some control on what I can do and what can happen to me”, I mumbled “Yes, Genau. So, Want some coffee?” he asked gingerly. “Yeah, Of course”, I answered.
Tall, extra hot Latte (at Starbucks) with an extra shot of coffee tastes much better. So what if it is $2.60. You at least get better ‘coffee’. Well, good things come at a price…don’t they?
green tea. i used to resort to that, in those old-old days when i actually worked…good solid green tea, straight from toronto’s china town…i used to trek all the way there to buy it (‘authentic, that way’, i’d mumble to myself), until i saw that the company that “manufactured” it had a ontario address…
oh well. maybe its grown in china!
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🙂 I like the choices part, sounds like an idealist sound in me which may get shut sooner than I know…!
Coffee at work somehow is always horrid and yea luke warm, every single day I mumble to myself, that its not warm enough…and yeah like u, I never venture out for coffee and never ever have tea, thts reserved for home…I dont know why but I never questioned tht 🙂
Alexandra: Yes. Good things come at a price or with some effort. Free coffee has its own price, I guess.
Shreya: hehehe. I am not a fan of green tea. Tried it several times but each time the cup stayed half empty. Or half full.
Upasna: I suppose we question it all the time but we never act on it. I am certain I know that I have some control on coffee and life, but I have never tested it out completely.
lazy bugger….
get your own bag
Funny u shld talk abt choices and our ability to control what is/will happen arnd us. I belive they are inevitably always made for us, like predestined. And we only go through the motions before we get what we want (or so we think).
And I think its the same for the coffee we choose (??!) to drink.
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And if it matters – PC disagrees to my 2 cents.
-P
Ah! P, You raise a valid point. However, are you saying that some choices are already made for us while some are under our control? Besides who cares what PC thinks!
HMmm….this could start a thread, I am not sure, would get anywhere. But then, whats the harm?!
What I do belive in is that most of choices are made for us. What I also feel is that we get more than 1 at the same time. What we choose out of those, probably is what we can control. Or were we supposed to go down that path anyways??
What say u?!
When u find urself stuck at the crossraods of life (like I do right now)…these crazy questions float and muddle ur mind more so than ever! 😀
Cheers!
-P
I suppose I am more of an extremists. I really dont think best of both worlds in possible. I’d much rather believe that either all paths are already chosen or that every delibrate choice we make affect the alternatives there on…There is no middle ground!
Comments r getting more interesting than the post itself:)!
life is like flowing water; when it is downhill, u’ve but 1 way.It’s the flat surface that’s the challenge. In case of coffee, I guess it’s a flat surface, u can opt for caramel apple cider if u please-warm, sweet, high on cals i guess but WtH!
Destiny rules over when the times are bad. for a pessimist, it’s always destiny. for an optimist, there are always choices.
cheers:)
Sparsh: Interesting perspective for sure. Of course is it destiny that makes you a pessimist or you choose to be an optimist :-)??
Thanks for visiting!
oh…But of course!
pleasure is mine.
cute! 🙂
and yeah i know.. ive taken to drinking soething i just dont like just out of habit.
i started my morning with a 38 yr old woman spilling her coffee all over me
and i had to give a presentation that day in a couple of hours.
I am thinking “Goddamn! keep running old boy!” , but i forgave her with a smile because she said ” I am really sorry but it is Monday Morning!”
Mystic Rose: Thanks. I think we all have to some point.
Kappa: That sounds straight out of a goody goody feeling sit com. I am interested in knowing how you know her exact age 🙂