Coffee

One finds that, as one gets older, one is more predisposed to drinking coffee. Given that coffee does not change in flavor as one ages, and retains its bitter nature, one has to wonder what it is that drives adults to drink something that as kids they can't stand - and if it is indeed some deeper metaphor for simply putting up with something we do not like - as everyone else does it, and life is a series of timed events doing things we don't like, punctuated briefly by short timed events of things we do.