Coffee..... The most important discovery after the wheel
Flashback….
“He is such a gud person, he never touches tea or coffee.” Heard that over a 598,000 times in the last 25 years.
This is called third person brain wash (This word is copyrighted by me, using it without permission would result in a physical dispute). Third person brain wash is when you don’t directly ask a person to do something but praise a third person who does something and the person you are talking to tries to replicate it. (Basically all of us, including your’s truly always wanted to b a gud boy)
So as expected, my brain was also rinsed and washed that coffee was a bad habit, ranked high up there with smoking and dope.
Never touched it, and secretly prided myself from time to time that I neither touched coffee nor tea. Beamed with a certain hidden pride when anyone offered coffee at their home and dad just said, “ Nah nah nah he doesn’t drink coffee or tea at all…” I would imagine them saying to themselves, “ Wow..what a nice boy, wish we had one like this”
Did they think the same, probably no. But I was the hero on the 70 mm screen movie running in my brain. Welcome to my world..!!!
Engineering…
Engineering night outs before the exam, was sprawled on the floor with books strewn around, in front of the TV, trying to make it till 5:00 am in the morning at any cost. Drank cold coffee all night, with ample TV breaks in between to keep me awake. Would call up friends at 2 in the night, just to make sure they were awake for moral support.
My aim, mission and ambition was to be awake at 5 in the morning at all costs so that dad would see me first thing in the morning, when he would step out for his badminton. Hoping it would make him think twice and empathize with my “highly visible” relentless hard work when he sees my low scores.
3 Years pass by……..
Enter the world of work life in US…!!
A typical scenario at 8 in the morning on a monday( office starts at 7). I am feeling drowsy by the minute. I am not too many minutes away from falling off the chair in sleep. I drowsily amble over to the black coffee pot across the room and pour myself a peg of coffee. Amble back and sit down, drearily placing the cup on the table. Lean back on the chair, take a deep breath and slowly lift the cup to inhale the strong aroma.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh…!!!!!! what a feeling…!!
Just the aroma itself kicks my butt. The lazy neurons in my brain start shuffling around like the chefs in a busy kitchen at lunch time. I put my lips to the cup and as the first drop of coffee touches the tongue, I close my eyes just to absorb the complete bliss and feeling the droplet make its way across my throat.
With every sip, I can feel my ears perking up like wolverine. As the second sip wades across, I feel more like Michael Jackson in the “Thriller” song. I can feel the transformation and the never before energy. By the end of the sip, I am all charged up and feel on top of the world more like my childhood god “He-Man”. Just jacked up with adrenaline rush…… ready to run a 100 m sprint..
Woww…!! What a kick…!!!!! Just black coffee, no sugar, no cream, just coffee in its purest form, plain black coffee.
It makes a lot more sense to add another important god to hindu mythology, along the lines of Ganesha – the knowledge giver, namely “Coffee god – the adrenaline giver or the sleep repeller”
Tidbit: My boss drinks his 8th cup of coffee for the day at 7 am in the morning. Good inspiration…!!!
Hey…I definitely can relate mysefl to this….