For each person, there are probably not many memories of coffee during their student years. For me, memories of coffee are probably the team meetings to do group assignments. The connection between people who only knew each other in the classroom is strengthened through cups of coffee.
With each new subject, I have new friends, new groups. Then when doing group assignments, we still meet up at coffee shops, sitting there from morning to night, just to finish the assignment. After finishing the subject, no one remembers it anymore because the purpose is already done.
Later, when I visited my old teacher, I met familiar faces, so many memories came flooding back. Life is like that, there will definitely be this person, that person, each person’s current situation is also different. Some drive cars, some still ride old motorbikes as students. But for the most part, you all have stable jobs.
What will come will come. The conversation became tense when everyone started complaining about the things they encountered in life. Only the teacher sat still and listened to those things. After that, he decided to invite everyone to the coffee shop in front of the alley to relieve stress.
It was a small, newly opened coffee shop with a not-so-big space. The decoration and arrangement seemed to be only for ordinary workers, drinking a cup of coffee quickly before going to work.
The type of coffee this shop uses is roasted and ground coffee brewed with a filter. The feeling of filter coffee is clearly a blend of Arabica and Culi. The smell is very fragrant, the taste is slightly sour, the aftertaste is slightly sweet, so it feels very comfortable.
Looking at this shop, many students had ideas for the shop to develop further. But the owner just smiled and said nothing more. The special thing here is that each person will choose the cup of coffee that suits them, then go to the counter to receive the coffee.
Each person will choose the cup of coffee they want and receive the coffee at the counter. There are very beautiful, colorful cups of coffee made of porcelain, plastic, glass, or crystal. There are also cups that are just plain and simple. Most of the beautiful cups of coffee are chosen, while the simple cups are chosen by fewer people. After choosing the cup and receiving the coffee, everyone gathers around the teacher’s table.
Feel the coffee, the cup is not necessarily important!
The teacher begins to speak:
If everyone is perceptive, they can realize this: the beautiful, colorful cups or cups made of crystal or porcelain are all chosen. Quite a few people choose the ugly cups, perhaps because they run out of cups and are forced to choose. But you forget one thing, the cups all have the same function, which is to hold coffee. That is the function that you use them for.
Everyone wants to choose the best for themselves. But that is the source of trouble that people encounter in life. The important thing in cups of coffee is to enjoy the taste of coffee. Coffee cups only help people contain coffee. A beautiful cup of coffee is good, a bad cup is also fine, the important thing is the taste of the coffee that brings comfort and ease to you.
A silence covered the whole table with the understanding in the teacher’s words. Then a refreshing laugh from the teacher helped everyone realize the true value of life through the story over a cup of coffee.
Life lessons from the story over a cup of coffee
Your life is like the nature of coffee. If it is pure coffee, its flavor is strong, the flavor is extremely delicious. But if it is impure coffee, dirty coffee, it will be eliminated. Because it directly affects the health of the user.
Money or social status is similar to a cup of coffee. They will help you contain your life like containing coffee to enjoy. The quality of coffee will not change if you change from one cup of coffee to another. The important thing is how you feel about coffee.
Don’t focus too much on the cup and ignore the quality of the coffee inside. Just like in life, what matters is how you live your life with “Quality”! No matter how beautiful or ugly the outside is, if you lose your “Quality”, you lose everything!