Goodbye, friend!

I am suffering the aftermath of overdoing the postprandial coffee in the past few months ~ in the strangest way. 

What began as a delightful way to keep me alert and awake in the afternoons (I've always liked coffee) now makes zero functional sense. (No offense to coffee-lovers out there. The coffee-bean still has my appreciation and gratitude.)

Perhaps my body is slowly losing its touch with the golden drink. Good coffee or not, it leaves my mouth very dry with a lingering aftertaste, my stomach queasy with my appetite confused, and my head floating. The sleepiness and drowsiness are not remedied. Also, I am not sure if this is a new phenomenon or if it was due to the stress that I was counting on the coffee to relieve - but I have noticed recently that an emotional low would follow the initial coffee-high. I tried having a coffee on Sunday and wasn't too hot about it. It is as if coffee had built a grand monument to itself in my life and left me with nothing but memories. It feels like a friend who gradually vanished from my life without a word and left me wondering if he/she took our friendship seriously in the first place. Or if I have done or said something that offended him/her. I am a little hurt even. Disappointed. Well, I could look at it a different way. Maybe, it was me who left without a word.

Haha. Dramatic. Overly sentimental. Me.

I guess we would have to part ways with certain people after having walked down the road together for a season or two. 

I guess not everybody remains in your life forever. Sad but true. Changes take place while time moves on. Only God is the same yesterday, today and forevermore.

I am reminded to appreciate more those whose paths are still crossing mine. Make more happy memories. Because one day, these paths might untangle themselves and diverge ~ leaving nothing but those memories. And perhaps, an honorary spot on one's Facebook friends list. Yaay!

I've often wondered what Heaven is like ~ when old friends reunite. I believe those tears we weep at farewells and funerals would be recompensed.

Anyway... I am falling in love with tea again after years of a coffee-affair. Especially Genmaicha (green tea with roasted brown rice) and Earl Grey.