May 30 Days Writing Challenge - Day Ten: What’s Your Favorite Morning Drink: Coffee, Tea, Water, Juice? Why?

The first thing that I do when I get up in the morning is to drink a glass of lemon infused water to wake up the body and hydrate, then off to do some stretching and yoga. I find it very important to do this for my body and mind wellness.

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Thinking about this made me think what did I drink in the mornings when I was growing up?

When I was a kid, I would wake up and have breakfast of cereals, milk, and fruit to start my day. I had a glass of milk in the morning, as part of my snack in the afternoon and warm milk before I go to sleep. This was my routine.

When I started going to school and my mother believe that breakfast was the most important meal of the day so it was packed with rice for carbohydrates, some sausages, soft boiled egg. and a bowl of pork and beans for protein. Some fruit like a banana or apple for fiber. One thing that I dreaded seeing was a tall, cold glass of orange juice.

How can I describe Sunny Orange Concentrate? It is as if someone had mistakenly bottled orange flavored cough syrup and passed it off for a healthy juice drink. It has a strong medicinal taste and its smell sticks to your nose after you drank the whole damn glass.

It scarred me for life and until now I don't drink Orange juice even if it is freshly squeezed because it brings back these memories.

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My teenage years were a bit better as I earned the right to refuse drinking the stuff and it became chocolate flavored Malt Milo with Milk.

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They did a great ad campaign of presenting Milo as an energy giving drink for champions. Their imagery of active sports and winning made people buy into the belief that they will have more energy if they drink it.

Milo would continue to dominate my morning drink until I started working.

For a time I worked graveyard shift in a callcenter and I would start my day working at around 10 PM where most people would be fast asleep.

My body was not responding to this cycle well and remember falling asleep quite a number of times to the chagrin of my supervisor.

Milo was not cutting it anymore and I needed something stronger. In came the advent of coffee.

It was not love at first sip. It was a necessary bitter draught that my body needed. I was too cheap to buy designer coffees at that time and was perfectly content with instant coffee.

Things changed though when I met her. I will not rewrite if and if you are interested in knowing that story you can check this post Drinking local coffee in the fog

Then I met her. She liked her coffee scalding hot and a tall Cafe Mocha with a hint of nutmeg. She didn't it like it too sweet and took one creamer. She would silently sip her coffee and have the tiniest of a smile on the corner of her pert mouth as if she had a secret that nobody else knew.

She changed my habit and my drink of choice in the mornings. I have come to be a full coffee drinker that when I get to the office the first thing I do is brew coffee. Not part of my job description but it became part of my routine as I slowly grind the beans and put it in the coffee machine and wait for it to simmer and boil.

The aroma of grinding the coffee and it percolating as the grounds get dripped on and create a wonderful elixir of positivity and energy. Then you take that first sip of bliss and you know that you can handle anything thrown your way.

A few years from now I wonder what my drink of choice would be. It might be prune juice as I will need all the fiber and help in my old age hahaha.

So what’s your favorite morning drink? If interested join @dragosroua's May 30 Days Writing Challenge - Day Ten: What’s Your Favorite Morning Drink: Coffee, Tea, Water, Juice? Why?

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