Kalau mendengar kata kopi, hal pertama yang terlintas adalah rasa pahit. Ya, kopi memang pahit. Lantas, jika kopi itu pahit, mengapa banyak orang meminumnya? Sebab, nikmatnya kopi itu terletak pada rasa pahitnya.
Memaknai pahitnya kopi dapat ditarik garis dalam hal memaknai hidup. Hidup tidak selalu manis, hidup tidak seperti cerita dongeng, banyak hal dalam hidup juga terasa pahit. Menikmati pahitnya kopi lalu kita akan menikmati pahitnya hidup. Kita menerima bahwa kopi itu pahit lalu kita menikmatinya tanpa pernah protes mengapa kopi itu pahit. Lantas, jika hidup terasa pahit, mengapa kita tidak mampu menikmati pahit itu. Setidaknya kita menerima dan berkata pada diri sendiri, "oke baiklah, hidup memang terkadang pahit, aku akan tetap berjalan dan menghadapi segalanya".
Pahitnya hidup seringkali soal masa lalu. Kita seringkali sulit menerima hal-hal pahit yang menyangkut masa lalu. Kembali lagi soal "memaknai kopi memaknai hidup", sebaiknya kita terima segala kepahitan di masa lalu itu seperti kita minum kopi. Terimalah rasa pahitnya, dan nikmatilah, maka kita akan bahagia seperti setelah minum kopi.
When you listen everything about coffee, the first thing you think is bitter taste. Yes, coffee is exactly bitter. So, if coffee is bitter, why do people still have drink coffee? The answer is, because the best thing of coffee is its bitter taste.
The meaning of coffee can be taken the line to give a meaning of life. Life is not always sweet. Life is not like a fairy tale. So many things in life are so bitter. If you can enjoy the bitter taste of coffee, you should also enjoy the bitter taste of life without protesting why coffee is bitter. Then, if life is also bitter, why can we not enjoy the bitter taste? At least, we can accept and talk to ourselves, "Well, life is absolutely not always sweet, sometime it is bitter, I will keep moving and face everything in life".
The bitter taste of life is often about the past time. We often hardly accept anything from the past time. It can be a failure, broken heart, or losing. Well, we're back to "The Meaning of Coffee, The Meaning of Life". We are better to accept the bitter taste and enjoy it, then we will be happy like after drinking coffee.