You see, Tea is not just warm and cozy...
... It isn't just something to break up the day...
... A low calorie food substitute for snacking...
.. It's a tool of PEACE and HAPPINESS !
You didn't know?
Oh but it is...
How many deep meaningful chats have been had at the mercy of tea? Or coffee for those who don't quite qualify..? How many times have you cried and then gone for a tea to soothe your pain? How many giggles and chats have taken place between sips of that lovely tea?
I am afraid to say that I am a tea-ny bit mad for it. I just love Tea.
It's not a food...
It seems more than just a drink...
It's like a purposeless medicine...
Or a bath for your soul...
(If you believe in souls.. If not then for your psyche, or ego, or whatever..)
And as much as we sayyyy TEA we really mean ALL THE MANY WONDERFUL TEAS.
In the world currently, there consists a billion different tea combinations.
Probably not, but still..
There English breakfast, rose, roobois, afternoon, chai, nettle, camomile, strawberry cream (it's from sainsburys and to die for), peppermint, green, lemon & honey... The list goes on.
SO, when you're next in need of connecting yourself with yourself - go to YouTube.. Watch the twining "wherever you will go" advert, and melt into a warm, comforting, soul bathing cup of Rosie Lee..
And when you do... Stop. Taste. Feel. Appreciate. And let the tranquility fuel your life <3
Thanks for reading, see you tomorrow
Believe it or not, at the UWC in Italy the sentence "Let's have a tea", meant much more than that. It meant... now we'll go to your room, or outside if it's sunny and we'll have a long talk and we'll laugh and maybe cry but then laugh again for sure.
ReplyDeleteIt was such a sociable event and a representative of the "tea drinkers", which was all the UWC community basically. You'd always have tea with someone, never alone, some people hand-crafted teapots that they then left in the college and are still used by the generations that stay. Also we used to always try teas, exchange teas and share.
That was my dose of happiness, thinking about tea :)