It's 6am. You haphazardly pimp slap your alarm clock. Your eyes close. Your eyes open. It's now 8:13am. Class at 9am. You judge if five more minutes of sleep is necessary and possible. Your eyes close. Your eyes open. You look at the clock. It's 8:49am. You have a mini-heart attack, but you're too panicked to worry about it as you're out the door with enough time to make a cup of coffee. You get to school six minutes after class begins. All of the "What a slacker" and "Asshole can't set his alarm" and of course "He won't amount to anything" looks are adamantly glared at you. You sit down in the middle of the row after you stepped on a plethora of toes and flip flops as you made your way. Now that you're comfortable you finally take a gulp of your "fresh" coffee. You wince quietly as a hundred and ninety degrees of hot coffee cover the surface of your tongue. You try your ultimate hardest not to let out a sound. Consider your day started.
The previous paragraph is how a lot of college students' days begin. Especially if they are not used to how hot coffee is or are half awake when drinking it. This is probably the mistake when it comes to drinking coffee. Burns are expected. Wear an oven mitt on your tongue if you're feeling weak just reading this.
Coffee could be the worst mistake you ever made. It's like heroin, but better tasting, mostly legal, and of course usually less blood. It's the perfect start to your day. Slowly, but surely it gets your gears turning. Your mind is awake and you don't have that full stomach feeling that soda gives you. Also you won't become diabetic if just drink straight coffee. However, side effects when you've over dosed include anxiousness, migraines when on withdrawal, coffee breath, spills, hot, fire, addiction, and you see spots sometimes. No matter how much it helps you, it will rope you in and entice you with it's mesmerizing aroma and overall warmness, but then out of no where it runs cold. Then you hate it. Then you want it. Badly. So you jog(drive) to your nearest coffee shop(insert big corporate coffee giant here) and get your fix. Everything is right in the world, until you need another damn cup of coffee. I have fallen victim to this curse, I mean heaven. I do not oppose.
I appreciate you reading the mumble jumble I have previously mentioned. I mean it I really do. If you really want to make a long lasting mistake, then go to your neighborhood coffee shop and stay a while. This is where it starts. You go a few times to get coffee on the go and that's it. Then you go in a few more times and the employees start to recognize you. Then you start to have conversations with them. You learn their lives and vice versa. Then you start to go when you have nowhere else to go. You come to enjoy the scene, environment, or experience. Whatever reason you choose, you enjoy it. It brings you back. At first you thought it was the coffee you were addicted to. You might be right. But now, now it's something way more meaningful.
You're addicted to the feeling a coffee shop injects into you. You earn a sense of belonging. A sense of friendship. You love the vibrant environment. Everyone's always doing something in there. Whether it be studying, catching up, hanging out, a business meeting, a date, or by god if they drink coffee while there, you're attached. You can't fight it. Why would you? Everyone wants a place to come to that their name is known, and not just because they're one of "those" customers which is usually followed by a negative connotation. This is your Cheers. You can escape for a little bit and watch a thousand lives pass in front of you for a little bit. It's quite the experience.
You see this is a mistake because you're constantly spending yours or your mom's money drinking coffee. When that's not even the half of it. Some people I've met think it's a mistake to get attached to a person or place for whatever reason. They say you're only setting yourself up for pain. You know what if the shop closes. Now you have to go out of your way to make more friends and find a new shop that serves quality coffee. What a tragedy. Now you have the opportunity to make more friends. As a human being, yes I'm getting profound, it's such an achievement to let oneself become attached to something. It does open one up for pain or failure, but bloody hell if you get hurt. Life's tough, get a helmet.
I may push a tough love mindset on to people I meet, but it's necessary so they can understand the seriousness and humor of life. They can and do mix. No one gets out alive, so you might as well be as sarcastic and jolly at the same time. Get attached. Hurt a little, Learn a lot.
All in all this is my coffee shop shpeel. Make a few mistakes every once in a while. Go to a coffee shop and embrace the environment. Surgeon General Warning: May Happiness and Smiles.
Let the day begin...wait my coffee just went cold...bitter taste in mouth...death stare at mug. It can only better from here right?
Over and Out. Good Morrow. I'm done. Please stop reading now.
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