COMFORT OVER CAFFEINE!

“It’s too bitter”, she complained . The barista swore that it was the least amount of caffeine in a mug full of extra sweetened steamed milk. Yet she wasn’t satisfied with the after taste of her so called coffee. As a matter of fact, it only contained half a teaspoon of caffeine.

She always wondered who those bitterly cold people were who manage to somehow romanticise the after taste of caffeine . Or maybe some found it as a way to overcome their bitterly painful life by drinking black coffee. Often she thought about those successful people who drank black coffee on an empty stomach and titled it as their “coping mechanism.

Surrounded by a group of people drinking every possible caffeine drink ever invented, she was the one sipping her homemade cardamom tea. Perhaps , it comforted her soul just as much as that bitter caffeine comforted theirs. Maybe they were too indulged in the strong caffeine smell that they were numb to its bitter taste.

At last, maybe she’ll never be able to bear the bitterness of caffeine without adding tons of sweetener in it. Maybe she’ll decide to stick with her cardamon tea for lifetime.

After all, those caffeine addicts have no clue about what they are missing in life if they haven’t drank a comforting cup of tea.

Maybe she’ll never know the allure of black coffee but in her heart she knows that the warm cup of tea will always be a safe haven from the chaos of the world.