Analogy: Coffee

A piece about how my life compares with grounded coffee beans

I am coffee grounds.

Here I am, having been grounded into grains of coffee from beans so that my taste and my scent be refined further.

I grew in my natural state, raw and wild, to become the beans, and then I was put through the grinder of career selection and crushed through various tests and criteria of selection to the state I was in. And then, it was my turn to be beaten with the other ingredients, through circulation in the academic circles and learning and examinations to get refined and qualified to the perfect taste. My inherent raw wildness and bitterness beaten out of me, my aroma enhanced to fruity and floral, my flavor refined to chocolaty and nutty.

And here I am now, after having gone through all that hardship, and all that refinement, ready to be consumed by the public infrastructure for the betterment of my people.

Written: March 11, 2010 Editing and update: July 25, 2021

This article is part of a series of Analogy Articles, exploring the idea of parallelism between my life and the phenomenon or elements around me.