Platonic Coffee

It is strange to find someone who flatly refuses to drink coffee, I think that coffee is one of the most universal tastes, so much so that, if Time magazine were to list the pleasures, just as it lists the most influential people of each year, coffee would fight fiercely for first place, in that position would also be sex and money.

If it were my turn to be a judge for this selection, I think money would win, basically because of that popular phrase that says “It is better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it” or “Nobody knows what he has until he loses it”. Well, I don't want you to think I'm in financial straits, I am, I have NO money, and no sex either, but today I'm feeling optimistic.

So what am I going to do with all that money I'm going to make? — I will buy a lot of coffee, of all the existing brands in the world, the most exclusive, artisanal, processed by Civetas, Ornitorrincos, ALL of them!

Now, if coffee were to win this distinguished competition of pleasures. Even with a photo finish, it would be a well-deserved award.

That's why I repeat, I don't understand how anyone can reject the drink of the gods.

Especially if it's my favorite platonic character, which for today's evening, will be Audrey Tautou, the French actress who stars in the fabulous life of Amelie Poulain and countless other cloying romantic comedies, the kind that make me sigh and say: “I'm not! I'm going back to my sad reality”.

Well, I idealized this beautiful woman because of her harmonious face, but not everything is what it seems. It is one thing not to drink the beverage and another, very different, is to demand that no one consumes a cup in the perimeter of the next 100 meters around, so as not to perceive odors.

I just think, what a privileged sense of smell, not even the substance detection dogs of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security can smell that much.

Ok, I shake myself and come back to reality, this woman surely is “Aquarius”, those people from the first days of February if they don't win, they tie. They have a monopoly on reason and constantly climb to the top of the mountain to see what the city looks like without them.

Okay, I'll do it, I'm going to activate a 24 hour abstention protocol, I'm doing it in the name of the admiration I have for the work of this veteran actress. I just googled and it's not Aquarius, it's Leo, we're the same sign, this doesn't look good, “like poles repel like”.

Wait a minute, let's talk about Plato and platonic love. My mind stores a concept since I have Platonic Loves, I think of it as an idyllic and impossible love, but as I read on, originally Plato was referring to a love that transcends from physical to spiritual beauty, which has nothing to do with the popular connotation.

I'm going to step away from Audrey for a cup of cinnamon coffee and process this information. I do not want to generalize my vision, but love enters through the eyes, like when you see a white sand beach and crystal clear water for the first time, what they call; love at first sight, that is, this idea of Plato, is like overcoming stages, knowing the depth of the soul of your other half and falling in love again, in this season, the physical is already complementary.

Ohlalá, I came with the objective of having coffee with my platonic love, and he hates coffee. Besides, it's not platonic, it's... What is it? What do you call this feeling?

I go back to Audrey's side, as much as I'm surprised by her lifestyle, I can live with that, I'm of the “Let it be” philosophy. Although if I want to know why she disowns coffee, there sure is a hidden story, as a Caribbean song says, “You only hate what you love”.

I have a flashback, I'm not going back, I just took a cab home....

It's that we are all equal, if I go back to a place where they won't let me be the way I am, when I go through life as a standard bearer of freedom, there will be no balance, there will be disadvantages, and we are all equal, mortals, vulnerable, dreamers.

I can accept that you don't drink coffee, but I will not accept that you force me to give it up so as not to impregnate the room with aromas. It is non-negotiable.

Thank you, see you next season.