The Aroma of Coffee Awakens the Senses.

Son, we don't have any coffee for tomorrow!... that sentence rings in my son's ears as if it were the worst news a mother could give her son. He puts both hands on his head and says: "It can't be! and rushes off to the grocery store near the house to buy coffee. Does this scene sound familiar to you?, does the same thing happen in your house?

In the mornings, every day whoever gets up first prepares the coffee. And we have a play on words that we always say. When we make coffee we ask those who drink coffee at home, my son and my granddaughter, if they want coffee. And we always answer "silly question", of course we want it. It's a game we play because here at home if you don't drink coffee there is no life... hahaha... literally, it changes our daily routine, we start to get headaches, we get hungry faster and even our mood changes.

My son and I in the mornings, each with our respective cups, start talking about the events of the previous day, it's like a family report. Sometimes, we spend a long time in that conversation and if we run out of coffee in the cups we refill them. After a while, when my granddaughter gets up, I also ask her the routine question: "do you want coffee?", and she answers: "grandma, silly question, of course!"

My son, after chatting with me for a while, goes to his daily activities, goes to his office, that is, to his room, and starts his daily routine as an English translator. He has had several online engagements, and with his cup of coffee, it is like being in his environment, because it keeps him active.

The same thing happens to me, I retire to my office, that is, my room with my cup of coffee. How many people now have their rooms as their office, I would say that many people now with their cups of coffee do their work routine at home. It is a change in lifestyle that this pandemic has left us, or it is leaving us now.

Going back to the coffee topic. I started drinking coffee since I started studying at the university in the evenings. Because during the day I worked. I started working when I was 19 years old. And I studied at night. To keep me active, so that I wouldn't fall asleep in class, I drank coffee until late at night, because my last class was almost always until 10 or 11 o'clock at night.

As the years went by and after several postgraduate studies, I began to work in several universities as a professor in undergraduate research projects. I had to read, correct, and advise undergraduate and graduate work of many university students, there were many, and to keep me active I resorted to coffee. Sometimes I would leave the university late, no longer as a student, but as a professor.

Here in Barinas, I started working as a coordinator in a training program for a refinery staff, and I was in the field all day. Full work, from morning until late afternoon. The break was just for lunch, and coffee was what kept me going all day.

Now in this new time, on the read.cash platform, every time I write, comment on an article I read or respond to one of the comments made to me, guess who accompanies me...., oh yes, my cup of coffee.

from unsplashDon't think that I'm overdoing it with coffee, no, not at all. It's just part of my routine. But the headache thing, if I stop drinking it for two days, it's true. Sometimes, the headache comes after one day without drinking coffee. Am I like the alcoholic who doesn't recognize his or her addiction?.

In the afternoons I only drink a cup of coffee. After 3 o'clock in the afternoon I don't drink any coffee until the next day. And it doesn't keep me awake at all. I sleep my normal 8 hours peacefully, with no insomnia problems or anything like that.

My son is the same, he sleeps peacefully at night, as if nothing happened. We are addicted to coffee. It's at the top of our shopping list, it's a staple.

Is it the same for you, does the aroma of coffee awaken your senses?

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