In my younger more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. Coffee stunts your growth. Now I'm much older and wiser and drink coffee when I need to, but not as a morning routine. My dad is shorter than me, and I'm short. But my mom is shorter than my dad, so who am I? Coffee (thats a math joke). But then I look around at the rest of my family, and they're short too. It's almost like I'm Snow White and the more than Seven Dwarfs. Then I come to school and I'm the shortest of the group. But anyway, I googled my burning question and it turns out the be false. What a relief, now I can drink coffee by the gallon. But coffee is much more prevalent in my environment than it should be. I see it everywhere in the mornings, I see it in advertisements, I see it where I work to be used as more of a drug than anything else, I see it as birthday presents, and even in my own hands. But one thing I just haven't gotten a hold of, Starbucks. I just don't get it. I'm pretty sure I've talked about it before, so I won't go into my problems with Starbucks. So I've slowly been slipping into this whole coffee fad, and then I've noticed my teeth are looking a lot less white than they used to. So I stopped. Now I only take coffee in from an IV, and it seems to be working out pretty well. Just kidding, but I did slow it down to about a cup every other day, mostly at night. From what used to be something I saw as not very attractive to my five year old self is now something I use to my advantage. I use it for cycling, which makes a huge difference from winning and losing, but of course not around NICA, which bans the use of caffeine in cycling. I caught on to that from a friend who's a world champion in mountain biking and he drinks it religiously. In any other case I use it for late nights when I need to stay up. Mornings and coffee don't mix with me, just because it's too mainstream. Coffee as a drink is as far as I am going to take it, no more no less. Not art, not as a present, not as a lifestyle, but as a drink that I drink. But there are certain situations when coffee becomes a part of a lifestyle, unconsciously. Like if someone asks "Well would you like to come upstairs for some coffee?" or "Hey maybe we can go out for coffee sometime". 
Note: I am not a pretentious coffee or tea drinker. I'll even microwave my instant coffee to prove it.
