Bitter Coffee

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One coffee shop. Same aroma of fresh coffee beans, same traffic honking through the window, same plants dangling from the walls, same tables, same straws, same cups. Yet it's crazy how every person sitting here has a completely different experience of life. One sipping the warm drink and letting themselves bask in the sunlight peeking through the door. Another feeling grateful for life. And there's the last one, wishing that they were never here at all. They don't enjoy the coffee like the others, they feel the bitterness of the drink glazing their tongue, while the bitterness of their thoughts washes over their heart until they wonder where the sweetness went. They wonder when it was the last time life felt sweet for them, the last time they could savour the sweetness without breaking. The last time they could feel bitterness pass without letting it contaminate the sweetness too. The last time they could look at themselves in the mirror without searching for flaws. The last time they could sit with their thoughts without feeling as though it was eating them up from the inside. All in the same coffee shop. But their experiences are anything but. And maybe, it's not just the coffee shop you live in. It's your mind. It wouldn't hurt to try making it a happy place to be in, right? Because we all could use a little more sugar in the coffee cup. 


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