I woke up this morning with a prayer for Christmas. It was something I have wanted so bad for so long. In exchange for this, I offered a sacrifice — 100 days without coffee, rice and alcohol.
I thought about it for a moment, "Kaya ko kaya yun?"
For this one thing, I figured it won’t be too much. These three things comprise my daily essentials. I was able to survive 47 coffee-less and chocolate-less days for my Lenten sacrifice this year. I got my wish. I passed the 2007 Bar Exams and was part of the top 5% of the nationwide passing percentage. I’m sure 100 days won’t be too difficult.
Tick. Tick. Tick. The afternoon passed…it seemed longer than usual.
At four o’clock, my brain was starting to hurt. The throbbing was quite manifest.
I reassessed the reasonableness of my prayer vis a vis my Christmas sacrifice. And I came to a very bright conclusion: This thing that I was praying for is NOT WORTH losing my coffee!!!
I marched toward’s Charity’s room and asked, "Cha, nag-kape ka na?"
"Kaninang umaga…"
"Gusto mong mag-kape? Kung papayag ka, i-bbreak ko na ang sacrifice ko!"
Without waiting for my sentence to actually finish, she blurted out the magic word, "Sige."
And with her assent, I gave up on my sacrifice on the FIRST freakin’ day! Hahaha.
I guess coffee is more important than this thing I claimed to have wanted for a long time. I must not want it THAT BAD. Otherwise, I would have ordered green tea instead of my Tall Latte (with 2 shots of espresso)!
Maybe I’ll try again next year — if I still want it. I might just wait for it to fall down from heaven and plop on my lap. If it doesn’t come, at least I had my coffee (and cake to go with it, too)!
Thanks to Cha’s equally indispensable need for daily doses of caffeine, I realized that there are some things that are worth waiting for. 
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Well said.