Justin Davis, Campus Carrier Assistant Photojournalism Editor

Everyone likes something. Actually, everyone probably likes a lot of things. It is in our nature to have interests. These are the things we spend our free time chasing after, whether it is an awesome new movie, an epic new place to explore or a delightful new restaurant down the street. That said, it is easy to miss out on what our passions could actually offer us if we just dug a little deeper.
My very first taste of coffee was a Java Chip Frappuccino from Starbucks at some point during high school. It was quite yummy, and made me finally realize that coffee shops actually sell nice-tasting things. I even started drinking hot, regular coffee, just with a lot of cream, sugar and even flavors dumped into it.
I could have easily continued drinking overly sugary drinks from Starbucks and highly tainted coffee, as many people do, but I realized how interesting this ancient drink was. I sought to understand it at a deeper level. I got to know a guy by the name of Jon French at a local coffee shop called Boulder Creek Coffee in Lawrenceville, Ga. Jon knows his coffee. He knows it at a scientific level, which I fully realized one day when he had a Bunsen burner out on the counter making coffee with a siphon.
Over the course of a few months I came to appreciate the amazing and complex world of coffee. I started drinking it straight-up black and ordering fewer and fewer drinks full of syrup. By digging a little deeper into this thing I found that I liked, I discovered an entirely new world of wonderful, caffeine-filled drinks. I also discovered how unhealthy and horrible the drink I originally came to like actually was.
That is not to say that I do not still order a frap every now and then by any means (Swift and Finch’s Coca-Cola Coffee Frap is delicious, by the way), but by doing more than taking coffee at face value, I found a wonderful new world that I never expected to.
The great thing is, this applies for just about everything. Going just a little bit deeper into things that may just seem mildly interesting at first can reveal amazing things you never even imagined. It may take a little bit of effort, but it is more than worth it. Finding these deeper levels of understanding allows us to not only be more knowledgeable and complex people, but also to experience the full extent of enjoyment that life offers.