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What's in a cup?

I was thinking about it today.  Why am I so addicted to cappuccinos?  Someone once said to me, it is social snobbery, to which I decided to take no offense.  And yet, if someone offered me a cup of coffee for free or a cappuccino for R15.00, I would still prefer to have a cappuccino.  There is no price too high to pay for an addict.  It is not as serious as smoking or drinking, I assure myself, and yet any addiction takes away your personal freedom and puts you in bondage.   What will it take for me to quit?  I used to ask myself the same question when I smoked, and when I smoked weed, and when I drank.  It is not so much what I am addicted to that troubles me, but that I have these "addictive" thoughts.  I have an attitude of "needing" this fix, or of wanting it so badly that I will go out of my way to get it, regardless of how inconvenient it is.  As a matter of fact, I think this addiction might also lead me into temptations such as accepting an invitation from a...