Coffee Shops & Beating Hearts
There’s something so simply wonderful about coffee shops. They bring humans together, they offer us energy, and they can even encourage new ideas within us. Of course not everyone cares about something so seemingly basic. After all, it really is just a place to come and go for a boost of energy. But, to some humans, it means a little bit more than that.
In my head, it’s a place to escape, to fall in love, to just exist without judgement.
We need places where we feel free to exist, that’s a fact.
True, sometimes we become infatuated by the aesthetic, or by the creative menu that was put together, and that in itself can be enough. Maybe you don’t even like coffee, yet you feel drawn to these places… why? Maybe it’s not so easy to explain, or maybe I’m just over complicating things as per usual. It could be that you just enjoy feeling comfortable with friendly strangers, and sipping on whatever yummy drink you desire. Perhaps someone you love, loves coffee shops and because of that, you do too. Or, you may just like the art on the wall, and that’s perfectly reasonable.
However, coffee shops mean more to me than they probably should, which even if that sounds ridiculous to you, perhaps the romantics can agree.
For me, coffee shops take me back to writing with my brother on days when we no doubt could have been productive, in a more commercial sense. We escaped to these places where our minds were set free. Honestly, if it wasn’t for him dragging me along to these coffee shops, I wouldn’t have as much nostalgia for these establishments that I truly have now... I wouldn’t crave the unknown as much as I do…
Of course, my love for coffee shops keeps on evolving, and I feel more for them constantly, I really can’t help it. In the past, they provided me with the comfort I hold within those memories I have with my brother.
But now… now, I’m creating new memories in these places, memories I wish that I never had to leave in the first place. In fact, they have never felt more magical to me than they do these days.
It’s this lovely, yet unspoken feeling of a sweet little coffee shop that clings to my soul and warms my heart and no matter how silly it may seem... it’s valid.