Coffee beans the way to Blue Monday?

Life is not sweetened coffee with milk. The consequence of a parent's moment of elation is the pain-filled accession of an offspring into the circle of the living, and then... It only gets worse. Fortunately, it is manageable. For the pain of existence and Blue Monday it helps coffee beans. Not necessarily with milk.

Black coffee beans - a brief case history

Good humour is like fine coffee - black. It is meant to hit the bloodstream directly, so that it goes in heels. Political correctness added to a sense of humour is like sugar and milk added to coffee - it just dilutes the real taste.

"Two equally aged friends came to visit a man who was no longer young. They were sitting at the kitchen table, reminiscing about old adventures when there were no two of them like the three of them, when suddenly the host cocked his head and said:

- I am glad you came, but how I accommodated you! Forgive me, but my memory is no longer good. I'm already making coffee.

As everyone is well aware, visiting friends socially and not being treated to a coffee is like visiting the Vatican and not seeing the Pope. So, the host quickly whisked away at the coffee machine, brewed his favourite bean coffee, which was roasted by his favourite coffee roasting plant in Warsaw and served the guests.

They sit and continue chatting, the coffee has been drunk, the host has already managed to put the cups in the dishwasher, when suddenly he knocks himself on the forehead again and says:

- Oy, I was going to make coffee after all!

Another coffee drunk, the pressure as high as the Dead Sea, they chatter on, cups in the dishwasher, when suddenly the host knocks himself on the forehead once more and says:

- What do you mean, I haven't even made you a coffee.

They drank a third, said a warm farewell.

Fellows return to their homes, chugging faster than usual as the pressure rages and they chat.

- Not so good with our Staśek. We sat and talked so much, and he didn't even make coffee. Oh, his memory has gone.

Meanwhile, Stanislaw's wife returns home from a meeting with friends.

- And how were Stasiu, Rysiek and Marek there? Did you at least make them coffee?

- Well look, and you know they didn't even come," replied Stasio."

It amuses me, because life taken seriously is only sad and gloomy. Only taken frivolously does it allow for a smile.

The coffee way for Blue Monday

Blue Monday is one of the best pranks ever. The third Monday in January (in 2025 it's 20 January, in 2026 it's 19 January) as the most depressing day of the year is Sky Travel's travel agency marketing.

Invented in 2005 on behalf of advertising agency Porter Novelli by Cliff Arnall, it is a 'mathematical formula' that accurately determines which day of the year is the worst for us. This is, of course, pseudo-scientific nonsense except that it is quite accurate. For it is indeed the case that in our climatic zone, it is at this time of year that life begins to appear, to the most mentally healthy individual, as a great ball that must be pushed laboriously uphill.

You get up when it's dark, you get out of work/school when it's dark. On top of that, it's cold, wet and when it's not dark, it's grey. It's hard in life fundamentally and in general, especially, at the beginning of the year, after breaking all New Year's promises related to physical activity, fighting addictions and losing weight.

For most of the day we feel like this:

there come such days

when it's all the same to me

and the world is empty so

like the bones of what a bird has

The best way to not have post-work depression is to like your job. Unfortunately, I completely don't understand why, people often complain about their job instead of appreciating that they have an occupation in life for which they are paid. A very good way to live life is to like your job. I encourage you to do so. And if you haven't already, you should drink coffee! It tastes best, of course coffee beans from a local coffee roaster.

What will coffee help with?

For weight loss and combating addictions only well brewed coffee beans! Scientific studies conducted not only in Sweden and the UK indicate that caffeine, when consumed in moderation, has a beneficial effect on reducing body fat and lowering BMI.

Other scientific studies indicate that caffeine helps to tackle alcohol addiction. This happens by weakening the dopamine release triggered by percents. So instead of alcohol, coffee and you're over the blue-monday blues.

The best coffee beans for Blue Monday

The easiest New Year's resolution to keep is to meet up with a long-lost friend or a long-lost girlfriend for coffee. This is trivial to make. And at such a meeting, during the winter blues Story Coffee Roasters recommends coffee Traditional Warsaw. Taste of home espresso for a peculiar sadness.

Author: Igor Maćkowski