Decided to quit caffeine. Here is a day by day chronicle of what happened.
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Day 1 of no caffeine: Slept 14 hours. Wonder if caffeine was keeping me awake too much. Day 2: Slept 12 hours. Ditto. Day 3: Back on normal sleep schedule.
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Day 4 of no caffeine: Doubting meaning of existence and of life. Why are we here? Why must we struggle? Life seemed so much easier just a few days ago... Nietzsche once said "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." I once said "F that I want tea".
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Day 4 of no caffeine part 2 Kant once said "Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination." I am imagining myself drinking a nice pu-er tea right now.....
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Day 4 of no caffeine part 3 Rousseau suggested that Man was at his best in a primitive state- suspended between brute animalistic urges on one end of spectrum & decadence of civilization on the other- and therefore uncorrupted in his morals. This makes me visualize a nice 碧螺春
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Day 5 no caffeine - Suddenly have immense clarity on all aspects of life and the universe. Have made progress on deep ties between string theory, Moses de León's writings in the Zohar section of the Kabbalah, and 4chan memes.
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Day 5 or no caffeine part 2 Suddenly it all makes sense - Trump's rise as side effect of 12th century salt trade, the illuminati influence over 18th century papal garb, and the location of the Holy Grail as a driver of the 22nd century AGI rights movement. TRANSCENDENCE!
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Day 7 of no caffeine. Back to normalcy. Sleeping better. Life a bit more boring.
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Week 2 no caffeine. "Earl gray rooibos" is like ash in my mouth.
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