Coffee

 I like coffee. 

Let me change that to: I like coffee nowadays.

When I was young, I did not like it all that much. I thought it was quite bitter and tasted awful, and that was just instant. My dad loved coffee until his health issues caused him to turn to decaf, and then not at all. He could easily drink several cups a day, even one before bedtime. I used to ask him how he was able to sleep, and he said he was so used to it that it was easy to!

I never understood that. I tried to by occasionally imbibing things non-coffee but caffeinated, but it isn't the same AND I was too wired to sleep. Coca-cola is not the same as coffee, haha! I even performed an experiment when I was in the first year of college- the effects of caffeine on myself. 

To carry out the experiment over a period of 47 hours, I used one day to drink 350ml of water every 24 hours, and a half hour after drinking the water, I would measure my pulse and my blood pressure and record the stats. Then for the other day, I drank 350ml of normal Coca-Cola every 24 hours, and recorded the stats for that. 

Outcome: I hardly slept on the day I drank Coca-Cola and was very tired the day afterwards. 

Hypothesis proven: Caffeine definitely affects me, keeps my body awake, and my brain very active. 

From that day on, I decided I'd only have one cup of any beverage containing caffeine up to a certain time of day (before 14:00) and not every day.

Until now, I maintain this even at my workplace, but I'm not so pedantic that I can't break my rule on that every now and then! It just depends on how intense work is at the time.

Anyhow, caffeine is a legal psychoactive drug that can be drunk in any quantity, and has no social stigma. That's what part of the below tongue-in-cheek YouTube video says, and what an interesting message it has! Click on the link below to see what I mean!

If Coffee Commercials were honest

And on that note, off I go to get a cup of coffee and hope that I don't get as super-active as my nieces look in the below picture!