Real Life Health & Mana Potions!

You know what’s awesome?

Ever played one of these old-school video games where you can go to the shop to buy potions? There’s usually a Health Potion, and a separate Mana Potion. Those were always nice. Whenever you’re in a boss fight, you’ve made quite some progress to defeating the big bad boss, but you maybe made a couple mistakes and are running low on health. How handy! In your inventory you have some Health Potions. Just press a button and your health shoots back up! And you can continue your boss fight!

I realized recently, we actually have real life Health and Mana Potions. Coffee!

Coffee is a great Mana Potion. Comes in all kinds of forms, tastes, sizes, prices, etc. It’s great, you can have a quick little one, an espresso. Or like a long one that’s a whole experience to consume, a mocha. You can take your time brewing the best version of the coffee potion for yourself, where you maximize its effects. Or you can create a quick cheap one that has good-enough effects, an espresso from nespresso.

A protein shake is like a Health Potion. Not long ago, I had some workers over to my house for some work, and I needed to be involved in some of it which required physical labor. At that moment, I was sleep deprived, really hungry, dehydrated, fatigued, and not feeling very energetic. So I grabbed my protein powder, the Gold Standard Whey, mixed a scoop with some water, and enjoyed that delicious little chocolatey thing. All of a sudden my Health shot up to max! I have energy, I feel strong, hydrated, healthy, energetic, full, and just ready for the work! It’s awesome!

It also tasted good. Like, not only do we have magic potions, they come in all kinds of flavors! They taste amazing too! Also, like ridiculously cheap for the value. Given how much money we spend on things we don’t need and actively try to stay away from, these magic potions are basically free.

Now, this is real life. So these potions come with limitations. If you drink too much of them, they turn harmful to you in various ways. So a little caution is wise.

They should make red protein shakes in glass bottles, and blue coffee in glass bottles. Just like the video games 😀