Adezzo

I adore coffee. I drink as many as seven espressos a day. And it always has the same effect. It makes me feel who I am. It opens my mind and makes me forget the meaning of time and space, of temporariness. It brings me right here, right now. It brings me back to life. I forget where I started my journey and where I planned to go. It doesn’t matter any more.
The only things that matter are here and now. The only things I possess and have ever possessed are here. And now. In this room. Nowhere else. Now I’m living the most beautiful moment of my life. The taste of the espresso and its smell remind me of that. My starting point no longer exists. It has become a shadow of events, time and space, which are slowly sinking into the misty depths of the past. And the point I’m headed to is still somewhere out there in the future, uncertain, non-existent. The fruit of my desire. A projection of my imagination.
Without the espresso, my real life wouldn’t exist today. I would merely be its silent witness, watching it unfold past me, here and now. The past and the future are fiction. Here and now, that's all I have. And my espresso. It’s my present. Present as a moment and present as a gift. It keeps reminding me that being aware of the present moment is a gift of life.
Espresso saves my life. Many times every day. Unless I have one, I am lost.

Igor Arih, Dignano d'Istria, October 2014