Faceless : The coffee fiend

I realize now I had a lot of things on my to-do list for this day

Before college, before my fourth year in college specifically,

I never really liked drinking coffee and only drank in extreme situations

Like in all-nighters right before major exams

And I haven't reviewed 75% of the past lessons;

Or when I'm stuck in social situations, say, I went along with my roomates

To an extremely popular cafe that's not too near our dormitory.

I never drank coffee outright because I would have the worst side effects

ever: an incapacitating symptom of hyperacidity

Like all the gastric juices in my stomach are boiling up

Ofcourse, they didn't show up right away

It takes hours before my stomach acts up, then, when they did I'd be

puzzled for say, 20 minutes, thinking over, "what did I eat?",

"what did I drink?", "Oh my God, did I get food poisoning?"

then I remember the culprit: coffee.

But, since the start of my senior year in college, I decided I would make

my worst enemy, my best friend and ally

I then started drinking coffee almost every morning before duty

and before my lectures, keeping in mind the wise words of my mother,

"The reason you get hyperacidity is because of an empty stomach"

And so, I made sure that I always ate something before drinking coffee

Soon, coffee became integrated in my daily life

So much that now, whenever I don't drink coffee (because I forgot to)

I would get drowsy and nap more than once a day

And that is never a good thing for a college senior who's got

alot of things to undertake before the sun sets

And so I end this post (my last for this day, hopefully) with

a caffeine-laced toast to my ex-enemy, coffee!

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photo: faceless by alekz [private]