Coffee, pros and cons

05 Apr, 2026

[Everything between March 15 to April 05, Sunday]

Data

Movies watched: 11 (1 in a cinema hall)

Xacuti eaten: 3

Currently reading: 18

Today is day one of living without coffee.

I am going to get off caffeine

I have been drinking coffee regularly since I was 17 years old. Before that it was sporadic during 12th grade examination prep days, to assist in staying up later in the night. At 17 and in college, the hostel I stayed in for undergrad used to have large coffee dispensers. I had a 400ml coffee cup, purple and green. That cup was what held my morning coherence. I have not stopped drinking it since.

But I have to say goodbye to it now, for a while, say a month... maybe three... yes three months definitely.¹

I have had nearly a year since H.Pylori was last detected and removed from my system and yet it's damage remains. And in my infinite wisdom, I made little to no lifestyle changes. As I am in mourning, I sought some poetry to find some comfort. I came across this wonderful blog about coffee poets of 16th century islam. Here it mentions what a pope said (in 1600) after drinking coffee: Why, this drink of Satan is so delicious, we shall cheat the devil by baptizing it. It would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall make it a truly Christian beverage! Typical.

Here I write in the dead of the night making a pros and cons list.

Pros

I might stop having throat issues.
I might try other beverages instead.
I will have the opportunity to try a new morning routine.
I will get a chance to rely on tea.
I will try new places to sit at for leisure time, instead of cafes focused on coffee.
I will learn to put lots of ice in other beverages and make them last.
I might not die of bacteria-brought on complications.

Cons

I might die.
All my creative juices might have been the coffee talking and I could lose it all.
I might become a bad person.
I would get irritated easily as I won't have a warm coffee cup to wrap my fingers around.
I will not know where to meet people for socialising.
I might not be fun without caffeine.
I might lose friends if I am boring to be around without caffeine.
What if it is my addiction that is maintains and equilibrium in the universe and losing coffee will lead to a catastrophe?
I would realise I do not need coffee.
I will have to drink tea².
How will I drive for an hour to a place if I cannot stop in the middle for coffee or carry some in my cup?

Gawd... oh gawd ³... The only way I can see myself get ahead is to be demonic about coffee de-addiction and act like I am against it, spiritually and literally. I will have anti-coffee sermons. I will encourage delusion and harbour suspicion towards anyone who brings up my coffee history. I will never acknowledge I have ever had a sip of coffee and talk about demolishing all coffee establishments. I will make posters for it. I will buy tea merchandise. I will crack tea pun jokes, like tea-shirts, tea-livision, nice tea meet you. I will include anyone around me in my suffering by saying dangerous coffee facts if they drink it around me. I will be vile to coffee and anyone who loves it. I will defini-tealy survive this.

89 days to go.

Shit.

Culture consumption

I watched 11 movies, and Project Hail Mary in theatre and yeah it was good but it lacked the charm I felt from the book which is to say the book was 100/10 but the movie was 8/10 BUT WHO CARES.

{insert face melting gif}/ Nats

The concept of comment section is broken. If you have thoughts you'd like to share with me, try email.