“What in God’s name is so special about a cup of coffee? Is it some kind of magic juice? Heh heh heh!” – the persnickety and annoying human being who thinks they’re all that and a bag of chips because they don’t drink coffee.
Well, let me tell you something you little prick, coffee is like the bittersweet sweat of the Holy Father. It can be pretty awful to think about by itself, unless you change some aspect of what it is.
Hmm, sounds like some people I know.
I’m only joking Reader, I am grateful for every person in life and the lessons that they’ve taught me. After all, that’s what this blog is supposed to be all about: being grateful for every little thing that happens in your life.
Pff, now that’s hard.
Do I really have to be grateful for everything? Everything? Seriously?!
The truth is, everyone should be grateful for everything that happens to them, no matter how shitty it may feel.
I am reminded of a quote by Zig Ziglar: “Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems”. I like that quote because it’s short, sweet, and straight to the point.
That quote has taught me great things, like when I’m sitting outside waiting to go to my next class and I’m attempting to socialize with my peers, I shouldn’t complain about how tired I am because 1. complaining about being tired only makes you more tired, 2. no one freaking cares how tired you are, and 3. complaining more only makes them want to punch you in the face.
Now, I tend to become the kind of person that is “all talk and no walk”, because tomorrow morning when I have to wake up at the crack of dawn and go to school and it’s freaking freezing outside, I will complain about how tired I am ’till my very respectful friends give me the glance of, “If you don’t shut up, I will kill you”.
This is something I’m really trying to change about myself this year. I have a tendency, okay make that several tendencies, to be extremely ungrateful. I might not act ungrateful, but if you could hear what’s going on in my head, you would be outraged. I am in a constant state of nagging.
Instead of me hopping to the big things to be grateful for (ex. family, friends, music, etc.), I have decided to go for smaller things at first that people seem to overlook as being significant.
Like coffee.
I believe coffee is one of the most important things in the world of human rule, besides music. Music is the most important thing in the whole world.
Anyways, coffee is the building block for my teenage existence. Studying = coffee. Homework = coffee. Waking up = coffee. I am consistently consuming caffeine to get through my daily responsibilities.
I am reminded of a time when I was studying my butt off for a Biology test I had that Thursday. I had barely glanced at my study guide the whole week so I was very stressed out about having to memorize all the vocabulary words and complex processes, like Cell Replication. Luckily for me, my trusty side kick, Colonel Coffee, was there to help me fight my own demon, Respiration.
I clawed my way through Mitosis and Photosynthesis and finally I finished that god-forsaken test. And, best of all, I aced it. When I had destroyed that test, however, I didn’t thank Colonel Coffee. Instead, I thanked my brain for remembering that useless B.S., like having to memorize that mitochondria is the power-house of the cell. Get out of here mitochondria, no one cares about you.
It wasn’t until after much self-arguing did I realize that the only reason I owned that test was because I was way too hyped up on caffeine to not forget anything. Colonel Coffee was the true hero there, not me.
So to coffee, I tip my hat in gratitude to you. I am forever indebted to you and I don’t know how I will ever be able to repay you for your kind deeds of caffeine crazes.
Speaking of coffee, I’m quite tired and I have an entire book to read by tomorrow. Good luck to me!
Catch you later, Reader.
xoxo,
Hannah
Shut Up And Be Grateful 