5 a.m. Morning. Early morning. Very early morning. The earliest morning (I didn’t know which morning to choose, so I decided to write down them all). I got up and turned off the alarm clock… Before it actually rang. Basically, it had been a quite nice morning until I had to face a challenge. I went to the kitchen and intended to have a tea then I change my mind and opt for a coffee, afterwards I thought that on second thoughts I would like to have a tea again (even though I hadn’t had a tea yet), next I thought that I felt more like having a coffee… Well, I had no idea what to choose, I was tossing up between those options, I had never experienced something like that before. It must have been some sort of mental disorder. I wonder what it was. Has there been any scientific research on that issue so far? Is it curable? Has there been anyone else who happens to have experienced something like this? Or am I weird? Those are the questions which went around in my head while I struggled to make a choice. However, I’m not the kind of person who tends to blame the president, the government, other people for the fact that he can’t choose what to have in the morning. And you know what? Damn it! I decided that I would get this adversity handled, that I would fix it once and for all because, after all, I want to self-actualize, I want to become my greatest version no matter what!
So, I attempted to get over it somehow. I read through a bunch of books, watch a couple of webinars online, tried out some pieces of advice which I had been given by various personal development gurus. And you know what? I got even more confused. Like, they told me, “Be yourself.” Alright, but what does make me more of myself: tea or coffee? They told me, “be positive”. Alright, but what does make me more positive: tea or coffee? ” They told me, “Find your life purpose”. Alright, but what does that have to do with tea or coffee challenge? Some recommendation did give some sort of insight into this issue, though. Like, I was told that my choice depends on the kind of personality I am. And I was like, “Oh, it actually seems to make some sense, I’ll go in more depth here.” So I googled what kind of people tend to have tea in the morning. It said they were the English. Well, I’m not English. Then I googled what kind of people tend to have coffee in the morning. It said they were Brazilians. Well, I’m not Brazilian either. Afterwards, I thought that what about other nations. And then all of a sudden a brilliant idea occurred to me. I thought, “why not have both… At the same time? Why not mix those two? And actually it sounds like a brand new drink, doesn’t it? What would it be called? This mix of tea and coffee. Toffee? What a splendid name for a drink! Toffee. And I will be the inventor of the toffee! Why even hasn’t anybody created it so far? It looks so simple. But wait, there’s more. I could create different sorts of toffee. I could launch a Youtube channel and share Toffee recipes. And consequently turn my passion into a career. Gee! I have finally found my life purpose!
Guess what happened next? Did I get a Nobel Prize for the inventing the toffee drink? No. Did I open a toffee bar and then develop it into a network? No. Did I get crowds of subscribers on my Youtube channel and inspire millions of people? No. Actually, I haven’t made more than one mug of toffee, and I actually didn’t have more than one sip of it, because it tasted quite disgusting. So here I was, lying on the kitchen’s bench completely tired, exhausted, puzzled and discouraged. Nothing seemed to be going to click.
But guess what? I finally managed to make a choice. Did I choose a tea? No. Did I choose a coffee? No. In fact, I chose water. Here is how it happened. I hadn’t been sleeping the whole night. It was 5 o ‘clock in the morning. I got up and turned off the alarm clock… Before it actually rang. And went back to sleep. Hardly had I drifted off when it rang… The mobile rang. I picked it up and it was my friend Rita. She was like, “Oh, good morning, my dear friend! Let’s have a glass of water and go jogging.”
And you know what? I have been drinking water nearly every morning for a few months now and feel much better than I used to when I constantly drank tea or coffee. Yeah, I know that having a mug of fragrant tea or coffee in the morning sounds kind of poetic and traditional, but you know what? When it comes to your health, you don’t want to sell out.