Cold Brew Sipdown (1338)!
Anyone else feel like pushing themselves to actively work on sipping down teas is simultaneously forcing yourself to look at some of your negative mental health behaviors? No? Just me…!?
I’ve kind of always struggled with finishing off teas in favor of savoring that one last ‘special cup worth’ but actively working on finishing off bags of tea is making me realize that at some point hoarding so many teas sort of became a security blanket/safety net. Like, I have several other cola flavours teas in my stash – I don’t need this one. However, as I was drinking it I felt guilty finishing it off because what if, in the future, I had a craving for this specific cola tea!? And then I felt guilty for feeling that way, because it was more than a little bit irrational.
I guess, what I’m saying is, I like the feeling of security of owning “one of everything” because then when a really specific craving or circumstance pops up I have the tea that is the solution for it. That’s not really true in many other aspects of normal like – I can’t always just whip out an instant fix. This is an area of my life I have control over though. I’m not really sure what to do with this epiphany now that I’ve had it. I guess I keep trying to sip things down, and work on not feeling like I need that sense of control.
So yeah, that’s today in “Roswell Strange maybe needs therapy!?”…
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Ugh, I can relate to this. I also worry that future harvests of certain teas will be unobtainable/too expensive/not as good.
Yes! That definitely factors into it as well.
I feel same! So many “last session” worth tea! Like “I need to keep it, if one day I need it.” and then it goes stale, weak in flavours, somehow blah. It was the situation today (although not sipped down) with Violet Cream. So long keeping it in the cupboard, untouched, because I felt I needed to be in a “mood” to enjoy it completely. Nope. It’s the tea which brings me to that “mood”!
But on the other hand, this year I decided to drink mostly those “last sessions” and honestly, it works! As of today, 60 sipdowns in two months… I feel bad not finishing that much teas earlier!
I gave up this mentality when, going back to these “last sessions” they tasted like crap because of their age. Made me realize I should’ve savored and enjoyed them when they were in their prime, rather than horde them because I didn’t want to “let go.”
Yep, I’m the same way to all of this! I figure if I made it to the “last steep session” then I did good job sipping it down anyway, and then the hoarding of the last session starts.
Ugh, I can relate to this. I also worry that future harvests of certain teas will be unobtainable/too expensive/not as good.
Yes! That definitely factors into it as well.
I feel same! So many “last session” worth tea! Like “I need to keep it, if one day I need it.” and then it goes stale, weak in flavours, somehow blah. It was the situation today (although not sipped down) with Violet Cream. So long keeping it in the cupboard, untouched, because I felt I needed to be in a “mood” to enjoy it completely. Nope. It’s the tea which brings me to that “mood”!
But on the other hand, this year I decided to drink mostly those “last sessions” and honestly, it works! As of today, 60 sipdowns in two months… I feel bad not finishing that much teas earlier!
I gave up this mentality when, going back to these “last sessions” they tasted like crap because of their age. Made me realize I should’ve savored and enjoyed them when they were in their prime, rather than horde them because I didn’t want to “let go.”
Yep, I’m the same way to all of this! I figure if I made it to the “last steep session” then I did good job sipping it down anyway, and then the hoarding of the last session starts.