alt Hacker NewsDid you know that if you replace coffee with water in the morning, you can remove up to 95% of what little joy you had when you woke up?
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npteljes • last Wednesday at 11:52 AM
I like this saying a lot, but I have found the opposite by experience. I stopped drinking coffee recently, and frankly, I found that coffee didn't add much positives to me, aside from the feeling of looking forward to drug myself. The evaluation of its effects after ingestion is bleak - my mood improved after 10 minutes for like 30-60 mins, then I was back to my normal feelings. I sweat a lot more, was more jittery, and much more irritable throughout my entire rest of the day. Which I didn't even know about, since I have been taking caffeine daily for 20+ years now.
I only recently tried coffee for the first time in my 40s. I didn’t understand the appeal, but I suppose it’s an acquired taste.
What I’ve seen over the years from occasionally being around coffee drinkers in the morning didn’t look like joy. It looked like addicts, unable to function and singularly focused, until they acquired coffee in the morning. When outside of their normal environment with quick and easy coffee, this seemed like an annoying burden to deal with.
I had a caffeine addiction from soda when I was in high school, which I broke in college. It led to chronic headaches if I didn’t have enough. In high school I didn’t put 2 and 2 together to know why I was getting the headaches and my dad was trying to push to take me to a neurologist.
Nothing about my experience with was joyful, nor has it looked like joy when someone wakes up in an unfamiliar city and is frantically looking for the nearest cup of coffee before they can talk about anything else. I’ve seen this from multiple people on multiple occasions.