Blessing Around

 I have two friends who love to have coffee. To each of them having a cup of coffee is a different experience, but the main denominator is that they love it. I hope they get to read this blog-post. I was not much of a coffee consumer until recently. This is owing to the fact that, I did not grow up in much of a coffee culture. I owe much of my consumption habits now to former housemates, who got me curious about this beverage.  Enough about me, lets get back to the two friends that I mentioned earlier. For confidentiality I shall be referring to them by their initials. So my one friend, C. is a total coffee nerd. For me having coffee using just means getting a sachet of powder and hot water in a cup. In his eyes this a vulgar way of having the sacred drink. I remember one morning, I was fortunate enough to see how he brews his coffee. C. was very meticulous about his method. He had all the gizmos that, you would usually see in coffee shops being handled by baristas...

I once came across something that said, loneliness is as bad for your health, as smoking cigarettes. It had me thinking about lonely smokers, and the state of their welfare. Living in times where it's so easy to connect thanks to the various platforms online and advancements in transportation, it may seem that as the human race connecting has never been as easy as it is now, more than ever before.  Morbidly, reality shows a different picture with the concept of community ever so fractured, and the expanse between persons increasing rapidly.  Billions of people , yet still so many of us are isolated silos, going through the motions of life. Some may blame this on capitalism, and how working forty plus hours a week leaves barely much room for a stable social life. Another factor could be the times we live in where people are not as rooted in their habitations as before. The moment one turns eighteen thoughts of moving out and spreading your wings become common occurr...