Leaning on my Mug of Coffee gives me more strength than leaning on anybody that can make my mind function.
It wasn’t long ago, when I heard the plop of the first rain drop falling down the pour. Limited to move out due to the silly 2020, I was holding my cuppa coffee gazing across the sky through my window.
The window that became my gateway to the external world, looking at birds chirping I felt jealous, there was time when we bunch of girls use to chirp together almost all day long, from college to classes, it was a noisy world.
I miss those human murmurs that often came as noise yet made us feel living in our world. The window makes me think all the liberties our lives had, all the liberties we took for granted and see the birds were still chirping. The clouds were still moving together.
It wasn’t long ago, I and my sister along with my brothers and friends use to walk the path towards our school in the uniformed colors, colors that identified a certain belonging, certain freedom. Like clouds each morning we use to float together towards our schools.
Today we all are cornered in one area within our homes attending schools without uniform and without those ringing bells of school. It has become quite easy to mute a teacher and skip on the teachings.
Teachings, life teaches us lessons on every step we take, every move we make, how we learn from these lessons purely depends on how much window we keep it open.
Sitting across the window, it wasn’t long ago, I learnt to keep the window open, though the house doors were locked, though the school doors were shut and shut were the doors of prayers, my window was open.
My cuppa coffee helped me lean on it strongly, the beans did scatter but I didn’t allow my mind to scatter, like a fresh brew it always gave the way to those fresh fumes you see relieved from the cup. My mind functioned rightly, following guidelines taking self care than fleeing away in panic. I held myself strong and will continue to do so not until this Pandemic passes away but until the eternity. That’s the teaching this virus gives us, to build our immune this strong that we vouch along life “bring it on”.
It wouldn’t be long anymore when we would chirp together, walk the school path together, pray together and keep our windows open together, to see each other, to take care of each other and most important be together.
Like you see I lean upon my cup of coffee.
Do find yourself something to lean upon that keeps you strong and doesn’t let your mind scatter, than be it a friend or your belief in something. Be it a spouse or a parent, be it a God or a teacher.
It should not be long for you to share your Coffeenama with us.
