Do you get grumpy when you drink caffeinated coffee?...I believe I do...I feel easily agitated...pickier...critical...of people, things, surroundings...and, still, I have been drinking it anyway...until this week...
The last time I gave up caffeinated coffee was many years ago...after an incident at work that I would prefer to forgot...and that serves as a reminder of how I do not want to be...at the time, I hadn't had a caffeinated drink in many years...then I ordered from a coffee cart...I was in a rush to get to a staff meeting and forgot to ask for decaf...
I was about ten minutes into that meeting when I realized I was shaking inside...all it took was one comment I from a coworker I felt was dissembling...and out my words tumbled like they had been shot from a cannon...
This was the moment I realized that I hadn't been letting my ill feelings toward this person go...that instead three years of pent-up anger had been bubbling just below the surface...
I didn't drink caffeinated coffee again until many years later...after I had retired...it became a daily luxury...a ritual for which I finally had time and attention...heating the water just so...carefully measuring each tablespoon...pouring the water slowly into the drip cone...watching it bloom...
I began drinking it every day...that is, until this week...when my sweet husband asked quietly "Are you drinking caffeinated coffee?"....
Another "ah-ha" moment...and a good catch on his part...
So now I have given up caffeine for good...well, except when I lucky enough to find myself sitting at a cafe on the banks of the Garonne River...or the Seine...or the...well, you get the idea...
Due cafe at Café Tupina in Bordeaux, France...