I am an ardent F.R.I.E.N.D.S. follower... (Yes, I still watch at least 2 episodes per day and I never seem to get bored of it... :) and when I first started watching it I was most fascinated by ‘The Coffee House’... I loved the idea of a place where you could just hang out with friends and have coffee... (I love my daily cuppa too...)..Of course Chandler & the gang perpetually lived there and I’m sure if it were India, they would have been ‘politely’ kicked out...Anyway, this post isn’t about F.R.I.E.N.D.S. (Really?!) but it is about (no points for guessing...) Coffee Houses..! :)
Today wherever you go you will stumble upon a CCD, a Barista or one of the many scores of coffee shops that have mushroomed up around our cities...And truly, a coffee shop is a world in its own.. It has an atmosphere of its own... and of course coffee and its variants provide a perfect excuse to increase our craving for social interaction.
A coffee shop is considered the perfect location for a first date...Not too intimate but cosy enough... It is a great place for catching up with friends... Several business meetings are also arranged at coffee shops and even if you are all by yourself you can have a nice time by just sitting and reading the magazines kept there or surf the internet on your laptop...
There have been several instances when I have just happened to go to a coffee shop to observe human behaviour... As clusters of social interaction, they provide a great setting to recognise the varying degrees of relationships among young people...and sometimes the things you overhear can be very entertaining...;)
However, recently I came across something that bought a smile to my face... Something I don’t see too often...As I passed by the entrance of a certain coffee shop in the neighbourhood, I saw this old couple, easily around 65+...They were the only ‘oldies’ in the entire place which was bustling with raucous youngsters, some of them even throwing obvious dirty ‘What – are –YOU– doing- here?’ looks at the old couple...But they just seemed to be oblivious to all the commotion around them..They were just happy in each others company and they seemed to be having the time of their lives laughing and joking. At that moment, they seemed younger than anybody else in the entire place with their twinkling eyes and smiling faces...I stopped there for a moment and smiled at one of the most beautiful moments I had come across at a coffee shop...
Thats when I realised that the coffee shop culture has well and truly caught on with all ages and is here to stay...
So how would you like your coffee?
I'd like my coffee with you! :D I love sitting and gazing at the world go by too... especially at malls! Incidentally, I've switched to coffee from tea just recently, and I can't get enough of it! The old and the young, I feel, live life a lot more freely than people in their middle ages.
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