Bitter Distraction

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Someone once asked me why I like my coffee so bitter.
I didn't know how to answer that.
How do you even answer a question like that?
It's like a distraction, you see.
Like when you have a killing headache and you bang your head on the desk, really hard, out of frustration. And then you feel the pain and it hurts but it's a good kind of hurt because for a moment you forget about your headache.
A distraction.
A temporary satisfaction.
It's the same thing with coffee.
When you have lost all sorts of interest in everything and you stop tasting food, and only eat because you need it to be alive. And then you drink this bitter liquid and it doesn't taste that good but it's a distraction from the tastelessness. And so it tastes nice.
Isn't it the same in life?
When you've been hurt so bad by something that you just stop feeling things and then you deliberately hurt yourself (physically or emotionally) just to know whether you can still feel or not. To provide yourself a moment's distraction from the pain inside...
Aren't we all just looking for a distraction?

Comments

  1. Tamanna3 April 2019 at 08:53

    Amazing.

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  2. Saswata3 April 2019 at 09:04

    Well,the bitter can be sweet too. Hence proved.💛

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  3. Unknown3 April 2019 at 09:22

    The coffee is bitter I understand but what you wrote is sweet and really motivated me..Keep it up Poulumi😁👍

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  4. Unknown3 April 2019 at 09:27

    that's a deep realisation I never had before and...a sunflower can be wanted too.

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  5. Unknown3 April 2019 at 09:34

    Deep

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  6. Shreyasi Roy3 April 2019 at 21:16

    Soooo soothing😊😊😊😊

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  7. Samrita Mondal3 April 2019 at 23:05

    So true it is...we face the same bittersweet events in our life as our daily basis...Just to have satisfaction or distraction.....😊 well elaborated 😋 keep on having the taste which makes u to cheer up! 😁

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  8. Unknown4 April 2019 at 09:24

    Nice

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  9. Anonymous23 March 2023 at 08:51

    Artistic

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