What’s Your Choice – Green Tea or Coffee?
As I sit here working on the 10 blogs I author, I just got a strong desire for a cup of dark roast coffee. It’s the first such impulse I’ve had in the 14 days since I had my last cup of java.
I didn’t make a concerted effort to stop drinking coffee, just woke up one day and decided to have green tea instead. The next day I decided to do the same and before I knew it, 2 weeks had passed.
As most coffee lovers know, it’s hard to imagine green tea giving one the same satisfaction as coffee. Coffee seems to be more of an enlightening experience where green tea is for the enlightened – could it be???
The desire for a cup of coffee seemed to have just evaporated. I noticed this morning, when I had the impulse, that the elements involved were a desire for the aroma, the sense of fullness and some sense of grounding. Interesting that a cup of coffee could evoke such things.
As I sit here with my cup of Japanese green tea, I don’t get the same sense from it at all. Green tea, to me, seems vaporous and unsubstantial – more etheric in nature. Green tea has a long list of health benefits associated with it while coffee has a shorter list of health benefits associated with it.
I think coffee has more fanatical fans than green tea. This could be because they’re all addicted to the caffeine, but as in all things, the true coffee lovers are in it for more than a slight metabolic boost.
BTW – one of my favorite coffee blogs is the Coffee Messiah. I don’t have any green tea blogs to recommend.
Just took my first sip of green tea. It’s hot. That’s about all I can say in favor of the experience on the surface. Hopefully all of those health benefits are coursing through my blood stream.
It surprised me that I didn’t get a caffeine withdrawal headache from dropping coffee. I can’t pinpoint another source of heavy caffeine in my life and I remember times I stopped drinking coffee in the past and the pain that came along for the ride.
Why am I drinking green tea? I haven’t a clue, but the desire for coffee seems to have faded into the background for a while. I’m sure it will return, something that good can’t stay hidden for long.
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