I felt my heart beating fast and weak, just when I got up this morning, like the syndrome of palpitations. on my way to work, I kept thinking what had caused this since I slept very well recently.
I could not figure out the possible reason until I went to pantry in company. I fetched a cup of instant coffee very naturally. suddenly, one idea flashed in my mind. it might be this cup of morning coffee everyday since one month ago, that caused my palpitation feeling. that's no wonder I felt very exhausted to talk to my clients this month.
memorized the first day I got on board in this company. I had started drinking a cup of coffee everyday for a week and terribly I got 2kg weight on my body. I sweared I would no longer drink the instant coffee any more. since then, I rarely got instant coffee in our pantry to drink greatly due to my teammate did not drink coffee as well.
I am not a coffee addict like my current colleague. to be honestly, from the beginning, I thought coffee was horrible, bitter and sweet with very unique smell. during that years, I would rather drink plain water. that habit kept years until some day, I could taste out the rusty flavor in the plain water, which turned out to be my blood seeping out from my teeth, then melt in the water.
then my colleague recommended me to drink tea. and from that moment, I started to try different teas, from the free tea offered by our company in the pantry to black tea I bought at the recommendation of my tea geek colleague Jina. at the beginning, the flavor of the free team (very normal green tea with Jasmin) was not so hard to swallow until I tasted the others, which defeat the free tea with no tolerance. the touching and smell of the tea water running though the tongue was so soothing , like warm hug. black tea, green tea, and white tea, we tried different types to find out which one we like best. occasionally, at that time, I approached the philosophy of tea. most of the tea would give you the bitter first, then sweet, from intensive to wild, then to the ends. with this new cultivated interest and habit, we had something common to share. from the way of produce tea to how to make tea, to different types of tea, we enjoyed the very normal but meaningful daily life. seems life would be like this and carry on.
until one day, my tea remained untouched for months, I realized it has been a long time since I last tasted my tea. I changed to drink coffee every day and now found out my body cannot get used to coffee. it started to protest by yelling from each cell, which made me feel weak.
although I did not like coffee at first, but thanks to it, I could avoid sleeping while working and gradually I got into this habit. and I like it. no matter black coffee which I could have only a sip of, or lattee, they were never of ne pure flavor, just like life itself. sometimes hush or push, its the flavor you have to taste on you own.
coffee is not bad, I get used to drink it. however, the slight protest by body made me think its time to stop a while.
from tea to coffee, sometimes, their function remain the same, keeping us awake. but tea is more soft and tender than coffee, the philosophy of tranquility and mediation. coffee is fashion and intensive, the aesthetics of perfect.
tea or coffee, is the choice not chosen by myself, sometime. its something making me to feel myself, to close to myself. both of them could slow down our fast pace life and work a little.
tea or coffee, no matter if is cheap or expensive, they got the value in adding extra flavor to our life, made plain living a little enjoyment. from rich to poor, we can always deserve a kind of tea or coffee to relief a while, telling us life is not innocent, but we can make it innocent while enjoying a cup of tea or coffee.
t-e-a, t'amo
