C-O-F-F-E-E

The aroma of coffee is the perfect thing to kick off your day as you lazily get off your bed to get ready for school. You wake up asking yourself, “What smells so damn good?” You rush to kitchen to see your parents drinking a cup of coffee to start off their day. You ask your parents if you can have a sip of their coffee and you bring your lips to the brim of the cup, expecting this burst of hot, sweet liquid in your mouth. However, you get exactly the opposite of what your sense predicted. You end up with a hot bitter taste in your mouth. You ask yourself if the coffee that you drank was the same thing that you smelled when you woke up. You take one more whiff of the coffee and your taste buds don’t change from the first time you woke up and smelt that sweet smell. Something that always confused me was why coffee tasted so bad, yet smelled so good. Usually, when your senses say something is good, it usually ends up turning out taste pretty good. The smell of pizza, French fries, etc… They all smell good, why does coffee not follow that trend. Vegetables on the other hand don’t give off the same sense of smell and therefore, you taste buds don’t expect much. How did people make coffee smell so good, yet taste so bad? Once I am able to answer this question, I know a lot of doors will open up in my life and I will see things in a new light. My young and naïve mind will shift and I know I will be able to figure out the mysteries of life.