Starting from 5 October, I’m trying to stay coffee-free. This could be the usual ‘coffee fasting’ I engage in occasionally when I feel that I’m going overboard with coffee-drinking but it can also be the start of a lifelong abstinence from coffee. I’ve always wanted to pick something in life I do so naturally and habitually and do it differently. Coffee is a right choice.
I started drinking coffee pretty young, in Primary school I guess. Not because I was trying to stay awake. I was just attracted to the aroma and the bitter-sweet taste (when drank with sugar of course). I didn’t quite get hooked, or generate any sort of dependence on it. It’s just that it gives me an unpleasant breath sometimes and it definitely contributed to teeth stains which are hardly desirable.
I got my teeth scaled and polished on that very day and I decided perhaps I shall stop coffee for a while, possibly a really long while. Turns out that it wasn’t exactly that hard. I already stopped bringing coffee to camp and I just had to stop buying coffee while I am outside and not make them at home.
Let’s see what happens the next couple of days.
Line Two as reflection of the days that are surrounding me and the days to come:
Never be overwhelmed by gloom and doom. Distant from those who are.
The second part of the creed is bad but I’ve become convinced that some people prefer to wallow in self-pity and be unhappy so I should just stay away from them so that they don’t zap my energy. I don’t mind sharing positive energy with people – it’s just that some people simply take and discard them away.
I’ve been writing so much lately, on ERPZ and some other tiny assignments that I am starting to consider stopping writing for maybe a month or two. I’m suffering from this problem of trying to keep up with writing through reading short articles on Fortune, The Economist and somewhat longer ones at The New Yorker, instead of keeping up with reading my traditional staples on Economics and Game Theory like ‘Thinking Strategically‘ and ‘Art of Strategy‘ that I bought a month ago. I am busy hunting for ‘Economic Naturalist‘ in the library but failed to lay my hands on it. The rest of the books piling up without me reading includes ‘Team of Rivals‘, ‘The Real Price of Everything‘ (which is really intensive and would probably require a couple of dedicated weekends) as well as ‘Age of Turbulence‘. I’m trying to finish Microtrends and Wikinonomics but I can’t seem to pick up from where I left off, largely because I found both books extremely boring and really difficult to carry on.
Nevertheless, I’m still at the considering stage. If I really do take a month break I must plan my reading carefully lest I lose interest and end up slacking – no writing and no reading. That would be a great loss, for myself in particular.
