The sweetness in bitterness of life

Nope, dun get me wrong. I ain't bitter about my life. It's just the food that I'm eating/drinking that sets me thinking.

Well, every weekend, my parents and I will go to the yishun YaKun for breakfast or coffee. Maybe it's the coffee experience that I have while I was in Hanoi that I slowly appreciate the bitterness of coffee. The more I drink, the lesser sugar I'm putting. From Kopi "xiudai" to now Kopi "si". Some how, I like my coffee with milk but no sugar aka latte. I know it's not true blue expresso or kopi "kosong" but I'm getting there. Now, I can taste the aroma of the beans though I still can't differentiate them but I'm getting there too.

The same goes to chocolate. From the supermarket's cadbury milk chockies to Meiji/Morinaga's bitter chockies to slowly increasing the percentage of the cocoa content. Now, I dun eat milk chockies anymore. The minimun is bitter chockies. from 72% to 86% now.

Like coffee, I started to taste the sweetness in the bitterness of chockies/coffee. The sweetness in the after taste or when u breathe in the aroma. The aunties at the YaKun thinks that the "xiudai's" for my dad and they are surprised that a young guy like me likes it to be bitter.

I think the coffee that I drank in Hanoi really changed my tastebud. The aroma and the after taste... still cannot forget my first Kopi Kosong.

Concurrently, I think my view of life have slowly changing. I felt more at peace with myself and though the angst still surfaces with my inability to change a situation. I felt more optimistic and cheerful. Seeing the sweetness in the bitterness of situations that life sometimes brings. I hope to increase to a higher level, short of gaining nirvana, the ability to smile in the face of adversity. Thou the word adversity is abit too bombastic, I think the word setback will be more appropriate. Like all, after many setbacks in life, I just hope that I can just shrug it off and move on...

Smile, heads up, wind in my face, what the hell, let's go!

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