Choose coffee. Choose a double shot. Choose a ceramic mug, a travel flask, a French press, and a fancy milk frother you never use.
Choose good beans, single-origin roasts, and fair-trade grinds. Choose digital kitchen scales to measure your dose to the tenth of a gram. Choose fixed morning routines. Choose a pastel-toned pour-over cone. Choose wondering why you are shaking and irritable at 9:00 AM on a Monday.
Choose sitting at that kitchen counter scrolling through your phone, gulping scalding liquid into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, crashing hard from caffeine dependency, nothing more than an embarrassment to the non-coffee drinkers who somehow manage to have natural energy.
Choose your future. Choose caffeine... But why would you want to do a thing like that? You chose not to choose coffee. You chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got a chemical addiction?
Got ParkRun too, marshalling though.