Addiction

I started drinking coffee in highschool because there was a Starbucks in the bookstore I used to go loiter on weekends all the time. I really like the taste of it. At least back in the day, that was the reason why I drank coffee daily.

2 shots of espresso in the morning. 2 shots in the evening. Every day.













This continued well into college and post-college years. Until eventually I started having chest pains, so I stopped drinking espresso shots daily.

Only every so often.

But then in the past few years, I've had days where I didn't get access to coffee, I find that I can no longer function as a normal human being. If I have no caffeine intake at all for the day, I become very irritable, and dwell on little things frequently. Become depressed for no reason, and feel a black hole of hopelessness and the feeling of being trapped.

To this end, I feel that I must be addicted to coffee. For without it, I cannot function. At least it's not a narcotic... (;;;>_>)

And so, as advice to anyone under the age of 13, don't start drinking anything addictive until you're at least 20. By then, there's a lesser chance for the substance to enter your bloodstream and become a permanent ingredient in your body's content.

Don't make your life dependent on substances, be it coffee, alcohol or drugs. (T_T)