I love the taste of coffee. I've been drinking it since I was about 2 years old. I had NASTY asthma as a baby and Mom found that a little warm coffee in my bottle helped clear my chest. The heat, caffeine and other stuff in coffee opened up my alveoli (?fucking spelling) and calm my lungs so that I had fewer asthma attacks.
You would think that drinking coffee from such a young age would have made me a caffeine junkie, but just the opposite. My asthma cleared up at about age 5 and I turned into a normal kid with a healthy appreciation of pepsi and juice and all sorts of other stuff.
When I got to be around 19 I was drinking quite a lot of coffee to keep me going at my very busy job. Then one day I had a grande mocha something or other with 4 sugars and nearly blew my mind. Since then I stay away from caffeine most of the time. Not T-total or anything but I prefer decaf coffee and soda. I'm not really a preachy type, but I do feel a little bit sorry for those people who NEED their first cup of coffee in the morning to get them going.
Nowadays I only drink coffee for the taste, and like I said before usually decaf.
P.S. Apologies...I've read thru this post and it seems a bit muddled. Its probably because I'm missing the one thing I AM addicted to...SLEEP!!!
