i wish i liked tea

I'm a coffee drinker, been one since I could hold a cup. Sure, my mom wouldn't let me start regularly drinking coffee until I was in tenth grade, but you get the idea. Coffee provides energy and is just a comforting part of the day. Whether I'm drinking it while reflecting in the morning, as I'm trying to wake up for the day; or I'm taking a coffee break while I'm reading (as Nathan jokes, reading philosophy in a coffee shop), coffee is just one of those things that I can only describe as nice and good.

However, I've never been in love with coffee's cousin, tea. This weekend I house-sat for some friends who didn't have coffee in the house. Instead, they tea. Earlier this summer, I stopped drinking coffee for my trip to Yap because it would be expensive and difficult to drink coffee there. Yesterday I was fine, but this morning I found the tea collection.

So far I've drank various hot teas--Chamomile, Earl Grey, a Chai latte--but I've not really like any of them. This morning I had black chai. As I sipped the tea this morning, I realized that I liked the smell of tea better than the taste. I've realized earlier on that I like the idea of tea, without actually like tea. I've always wanted to read 18th century British poetry in a coffee shop, while I'm sipping tea. But the truth is that I don't like tea. I guess that I can keep telling myself that I haven't found the right tea yet and that someday my dream will come true.

It seems like tea should fit my image whatever that is (if you don't see it, continue to read my blog and you will might stereotype me as a tea-drinker), but how many other things are we supposed to like? These are symbols that fit what people would expect of us. For example, a rock musician is supposed to idolize the Beatles, but what if he doesn't?

Feel free to keep this discussion going about what we're supposed to like, but if truth be told, we don't.