The helplessness of coffee addiction

Do you know what is the most consumed drink per capita in Germany in recent years? Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind for most people is the famous German beer or soda. However, the correct answer is coffee.

For a Chinese with petty bourgeoisie feelings, coffee is a symbol of foreign style and nobility. However, coffee does not enjoy such an honor in Germany. Here, coffee is washed away and restored to its essence-it is a refreshing "stimulant". People consume coffee not for selfies, not for narcissism, occasionally for a taste of the strong aroma of coffee, and more often-without this cup of brown liquid, they sleepwalk all day.

Children's caffeine intake still stays at the stage of eating chocolate and drinking cola. Germans are particularly fond of flowers in their motherland, so caffeine intake for children and teenagers has always been low. However, with the growth of age, parents gradually relax their control, and children learn to drink coffee through osmosis. As a result, this strange alien species has gradually become an integral part of every German life.

Coffee consumption is already quite common among college students. Coffee bread is to the German what soy milk Youtiao is to the Chinese. German students who go to bed late and get up early are used to waking up their half-asleep brains with the first cup of coffee at breakfast. Especially for the architecture students who often stay up late to work, coffee is their best companion to stay up late. However, the drinking of coffee is often imperceptibly influenced from drinking pleasure from childhood to drinking heavily. I once advised a roommate in the architecture department to stay away from the bad habit of drinking coffee as water. She just shook her head and told me helplessly that she didn't want to pour coffee like a drug, but she had become dependent on coffee. As soon as she stopped coffee, the world was full of Simmons and duck down quilts.

As for the working life after graduation, it is closely related to coffee. If there is nothing missing in the company's tea room, we will not forget the coffee maker. The 24-hour uninterrupted supply of rich and bitter coffee, coupled with sugar, milk and other seasonings, is not only the driving force to enter the work mode in the morning, but also a good medicine to resist the feeling of drowsiness in the afternoon. it is also the spiritual support of fatigue and overtime. If the coffee machine breaks down unfortunately, then the whole company will go into rampage mode.

Coffee has nothing to do with elegance and nobility here. Because coffee drinkers tend to overwork and struggle painfully with their instincts, it is more helpless than elegant. Only coffee knows how bitter they are.