There will always be tea
There’s nothing like a good cup of tea. It makes the world go round, it really does. There’s just something about cracking into a good cuppa, in almost any situation, that makes you feel immediately comfortable, and right at home. Unless it’s in one of those nasty takeaway cups you get from Starbucks and similar. Somehow that’s just not right.
A cup of tea really needs to be drunk from a solid mug. Even a china cup feels a little to delicate for what is fundamentally a drink to be consumed in some volume. There’s just a satisfaction about drinking from a mug, its solidity, that really complements its contents. And it fits every situation, you may be going through the paper looking for a used sofa for sale, up late studying for an example, or chatting on the phone, all these activities are made better with tea in hand.
Having been a coffee drinker for a long time, I have recently got into drinking much more tea. It feels much more sociable than coffee, oddly, in a work environment. And it feels much more satisfying to drink tea while you work than to drink coffee. Coffee always feels so much more functional - what with the caffeine hit - no matter how much you enjoy drinking it (and I do).
I find, too, that you can consume far more tea than you can coffee. The myth that tea contains more caffeine than coffee is true - but only in the plant. By the time tea is picked, processed, and brewed, there is much less caffeine than in coffee. So, you can drink more without the side effects of too much caffeine - the sleepless nights, the crazy racing brain - and then the very tired days and the headache’s when it’s been too long since the last cup… And who doesn’t work better with a cup of tea to hand. The only upsetting moments are when you forget about it and then swig a cold mouthful, or when you finish it without realizing it and then try and drink from the empty cup.
But you can always make more. There will always be tea.
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