As I write this, I am sitting in bed, with my Urban Outfitters comforter wrapped around me, trying to get the breeze from the cloudy day coming through the crack of my window to blow away my hangover, and a cup of coffee in my hand. I am alone, and frankly, there's no one else I would want to spend Saturday morning in bed with than a cup of coffee. Relationships are great, don't get me wrong. It's nice to wake up with someone's arms wrapped around you, but the aroma of coffee wrapped around you is so much better. Coffee helps you get the day going, but it doesn't ask you when you actually plan to get out of bed and do anything. It doesn't hog the covers. It doesn't nag.
There's also so many different kinds of coffee. You aren't forced to be tied down to one type. Dark roast, Colombian, Blonde, espresso--the options are endless. You can pretty much get whatever you can think up in a cup at Starbucks with your name entirely spelt wrong written on the side. Tis the season of pumpkin spice lattes; it also happens to be cuffing season, but coffee tastes so much better.
Coffee is there for you in the morning when you genuinely think that getting out of bed may result in your death. It helps you keep your eyes open while your professor is going on about Homer and The Iliad (seriously, if that isn't a call for coffee, I don't know what is). It helps you have the ability to keep up with the children you nanny, especially when their stories are so elaborate, confusing, and pretty much make no sense. You need coffee to listen to their every word so when they ask, "Are you listening? What'd I just say?" you have a pleasing answer.
Coffee is there for you when you are drowning in essays, books, lectures and projects. It keeps you awake and motivated in a non-distracting way. When was the last time a relationship did that for you? If you tried doing work with a significant other--I'll keep it PG since my parents read this (or at least they tell me they do)--you just simply wouldn't get it done. Coffee isn't like that.
Plus, coffee mugs are just so cute. The one I'm drinking out of right now says, "You Go Girl" on both sides. See? Even the outfit coffee is wearing is getting me through my day. You can probably make the same argument about a boyfriend or girlfriend, but coffee doesn't talk back.
All in all, coffee is just there for you when no one else is. It warms you up or cools you down, it wakes you up, it keeps you awake. Honestly the only bad part about it is the come down from withdrawal and the fact that I probably drink enough to cause stomach ulcers. But both of those things are better than heart break. Am I right? Probably not.
