Tea is a fandom, I'm just not in it

So, when I was a kid, I thought the only way to make tea was to steep it to death. See, the longer you steeped it, the better color it was, so that was better, right?

Anyway, as I got a bit older I discovered I don't actually like tea and I mostly stopped drinking it except occasionally, like a chai tea at Starbucks when I was meeting someone and needed to look adult-y (I dislike coffee a lot more) and/or when I was sick and who cares that it tasted bad, I just wanted something hot. So that was me though college and early adulthood and so on.

And then, like a year or two ago, I realized that while I'm still not a Tea Person or whatever, I do like tea well enough. I just like it WEAK. So weak. Barely allowed to call itself tea weak. Basically lightly flavored hot water weak. (And I still like it when I'm sick, I just like it way better because now I make it very very weak.)

This of course, feels like an entire waste of a teabag. You could make so much tea from that teabag! I like, hmmm, 2% of the flavor out of each tea bag! I like the water "slightly more colored than just plain water" tea. Feels like such a waste!

Anyway, thoughts on my weird tastes because I woke up this morning with a sore throat (shouldn't be covid, I just got over covid, I suspect the suddenly colder temperatures) and I just wasted an entire tea bag. If I was more awake when I made it, I might have tried to save the tea bag but it was eaaaarlllyyy.

So my lightly flavored hot water is very nice, thank you.