It's true, I do see life a lot like coffee... When I was thinking about what and how to title this blog I didn't want some wishy washy name or something that sounded clever but didn't mean anything to me so I chose Storm in a Coffee Cup.
My life has been anything but normal, and I've had my ups and downs. This is like coffee, you have good coffee (an up), bad coffee (a down), retched coffee (rock bottom) and climbing back to exception coffee (you're on top of the world!)
It's funny because I haven't always liked coffee, in fact it was when I was 18 and desperately trying to get into the retail industry, Gloria Jeans was my first "real" full time job.I worked in the first flagship store in Australia - when coffee was just taking off and we were crazy bust with queues of people out the door before we'd even opened the store!
I knew NOTHING about coffee and in fact didn't even like the smell of coffee. Within weeks I was converted. Through extensive training I became a top barista and could perfect the perfect cup. I became a little obsessed with making sure every cup was the best of the best.
Thinking back this is how I led my life too, making sure that I constantly did better. A better car, better boyfriend, better clothes all of it.
I have definitely had some BAD cups of coffee along the way, those are relationships I'd much rather forget, but it has led me to where I am today and I am grateful for that.
As I write this I'm sipping a perfectly made latte and realising life is good and life is what you make it. If you buy cheap instant coffee and expect to have a brilliant frothed perfected coffee you will be sadly mistaken so take a moment to smell the coffee beans and take in life.
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