The decision to drink coffee doesn’t come easily to some people. All the research and news about caffein in coffee, and the limiting of it to three cups, bring anxiety to those who can’t live with it and can’t live without it. Other people couldn’t care less, they just want it to taste really good. Still others will drink any kind from anywhere as long as it’s called coffee.
When I see people walking along the street holding a cup of iced or hot coffee, they look as though they’ve just found their best friend. Coffee does that for some people. It’s not the same as holding a bottle of water. And at the train station passengers with only a few minutes to spare before boarding will hurry over to a coffee counter not wanting to board without what’s to be their last cup of the day. They’ll spill some of it running for the train and that’s okay.
Then there are those delightful scenes of people sitting in cafes, often two or more to a table, coffee cups between them. They take small sips as if to prolong the stay, while smiling, conversing, relaxing as though they haven’t a care in the world. And there are people alone in cafes in cities and towns throughout the world scanning a book, a laptop, or a newspaper reaching for a coffee cup, eyes never leaving book, laptop, newspaper – good, sweet moments are these.
A cup of coffee brings pleasure to a lot of people; it would seem the enjoyment of it more than makes up for whatever it is caffein might or might not do to a coffee drinker. So, no matter what the latest research indicates, coffee continues to delight for many different reasons.