Blog #6: I Think I’m A Caffeine Addict.
WHAT’S UP MY FRIENDS! You already know, it’s Sunday, which means a NEW blog post from MUAH. And of course, new pod tomorrow. LET’S JUST DIVE RIGHT IN.
I’m sitting here this morning on my couch, drinking my chai (cha) while Suketu is watching TV. In a couple of hours I’m going to meet a long-time friend for coffee, which I’m super pumped about. As I was piecing together that I am having my daily chai, and then also going to downtown Indy for some coffee and chats, I got to thinking… do I have a caffeine addiction? No no, no… For sure I don’t, right? That would mean that I need caffeine to function on a day to day basis, I feel withdrawal without it, that I NEED it. But wait… I get major headaches without my chai, and I can’t focus, and I CRAVE it so badly and feel withdrawal symptoms. Oh no…
You’re hearing it here first, I am a caffeine addict. Is that so wrong? Let’s break it down.
I NEED my morning chai. I just do. It’s cozy, hot, comforting, tasty, and every morning I look forward to our ritual where we sip our chai and talk about our day ahead. Then in the afternoon, I love to have a little pick-me-up in the form of coffee. An iced vanilla latte perhaps? Or maybe I’m feeling saucy and want a lavendar latte. I feel so, SO good when I have both, because I’m experiencing a caffeine rush, LOL. Of course I feel good. I feel I can conquer the WORLD when I am caffeinated. I’m focused, I’m driven, and straight up happy because I love having yummy drinks.
The craziest part of all, is that I’d never so much as sipped coffee until the year 2021 when I decided to give it a go. How did I survive so long without it? Really though, it makes me wonder how I made it through college and all the exam prep and studying WITHOUT any form of caffeine. I believe drinking anything is a social influence: alcohol, coffee, kava… that’s a different story. But what I’ve grown to love so much about drinking coffee is that there are so many coffee shops in which I can meet my friends and go on coffee dates. Talk about a love language, mine’s coffee and chatting. How can it get better than that?
The chai and coffee combo may not be for everyone, and I completely get that. However, for me, I’ve been consuming a lot of caffeine on a daily basis and I truly need it to get through the days at this point. Especially for working out - my running… exhausts me, and can be so draining when I already feel tired. So many people have incredibly busy lives and need a little boost to get through the day. Jobs are exhausting, children are exhausting, maintaining a social life is exhausting… all this to say, I feel like everyone has a little caffeine addiction in them. Do you?
What’s your go-to coffee order? Are you a fellow chai drinker? Do you do matcha? I’ve personally never tried matcha, but it’s all the rave right now. So many people have their own special drinks, and I’m so here for it. I think it’s wonderful. Everyone has their own tastes in so many ways, it’s what makes this world so cool, doesn’t it? To that point, since I’ve talked so much about Suketu in pretty much every blog post, let’s go ahead and bring it back to him… again. He introduced me to chai. His culture introduced me to so much more than that, but since we’re discussing caffeine, chai is the BEST. I’m obsessed. I’d never had a “chai tea latte” from Starbucks before I had our chai. Now I have, and safe to say, it’s TRASH. It’s so interesting when I tell people that my chai at home is so much better than what you can buy from most coffee shops. Not a lot of people, including myself, have/had any idea you can make it at home. And the CRAZIEST part is… Suketu and I didn’t have chai for the first year of our marriage. WHAT? Yeah.. I’m ashamed tbh. I’d never tried it! And I wasn’t like, fully into the swing of coffee yet, yk? It’s an acquired taste and I wasn’t having it on the daily. Just every once in a while. Suketu had been drinking chai his whole life, which is crazy to me. He’d been drinking the most delicious and cozy drink in the world and he had the nerve NOT to share this with me???
My love for chai will never die. Or coffee. I secretly will always prefer chai though, because it reminds me of my love for Suketu and all the color his culture has brought into my life. And, please please please… never, EVER, call it “chai tea”. Because you’re saying “tea tea”. Thank u, love u all my friends <3
See you NEXT SUNDAY.
COMMENT BELOW: What’s your favorite caffeinated beverage? Hot or iced? LEMME KNOW.
