{"id":3347,"date":"2017-10-20T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2017-10-16T23:10:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T03:10:11","slug":"eliza-coffee-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2017\/10\/20\/eliza-coffee-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliza: Coffee Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may have taken until senior year, but I\u2019ve finally accepted it. I\u2019ll never be the type of person who wakes up early to drink coffee in my apartment, or even to make it and take it out the door with me.<\/span><\/p>\n

I will <\/span>always<\/span><\/i> be the type of person, however, who rushes walking to see if there\u2019s a chance of popping into a coffee shop before my meeting \/ class \/ COM building tour. I will continue to spend that $2-$5 almost every day, but I\u2019ve decided that I needed to come to terms with my habit.<\/span><\/p>\n

To be fair, the \u201ctreat yo self\u201d movement has been around for a while, and I\u2019ve indulged in a few cozy sweaters (for those Boston winters) or a dinner out (for when cooking like an adult is just too much) using just this mentality to justify it. But I never looked at my daily caffeine fix as a part of this philosophy, I just did it, every day, and felt bad about spending the money after. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the grand scheme of my spending, coffee is <\/span>definitely<\/span><\/i> a drain on my wallet over time, but having come to terms with that it\u2019s something that gives me joy, I\u2019ve started to look at it as more of a lovely little bit of self-love, and not a irresponsible indulgence.<\/span><\/p>\n

This all comes along with getting older, probably, but learning to \u201cnot sweat the small stuff\u201d is something I try to work on every day. Of course, my inner perfectionist fights tooth and nail for every little behavior to be analyzed. Taking the drama out of little things, like buying a cup of coffee, means more energy and time to focus on things like school work, or even more simply on just enjoying the day.<\/span><\/p>\n

The moral of this (caffeine induced) tirade is this: find something that makes you happy, and run with it. Because those little parts of your day have a way bigger impact than you\u2019d think, and in the long run, coffee is always a good idea.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It may have taken until senior year, but I\u2019ve finally accepted it. I\u2019ll never be the type of person who wakes up early to drink coffee in my apartment, or even to make it and take it out the door with me. I will always be the type of person, however, who rushes walking to … Continue reading Eliza: Coffee Reflections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44417],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3348,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/3348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}