A coffee shop is the perfect place for dozens of activities: resting, reading, working, meeting or saying goodbye to someone, spending time alone, celebrating a special date, thinking about and organizing a project, and a long list of possibilities goes on. We just have to think about the last time we had a coffee, we probably weren't just having a coffee, right?
I think that coffee shops are the perfect place for concentration: studying and/or working. Something about the coffee (well, not "something", it has caffeine😅), something about the environment, something about the furniture, gives me the ideal and necessary contextual variables to concentrate 100% on an activity and stay awake and energized to carry out what I'm doing. I love doing this alone and it brings me many benefits because I get a lot of work done, it is easier to learn or memorize something and I feel that I make good use of the hours there. If I'm at home, it's very easy to get distracted or excuse myself that I have to do something else. But I already know that if I go to a coffee shop alone, it's to do what I have to do. ✅
Although the truth is that most of the time when I go to a coffee shop I am accompanied, mostly by members of my family. For example, with my husband we go very often to a nearby coffee shop with excellent service, where we usually have breakfast on weekends and of course consume our delicious cup of coffee. Something happens with my parents and that is that we share a love for tasting coffees and getting to know new coffee shops. In a city as big as Bogota, we try not to drink coffee in the same place, but to try different varieties, roasting processes, services, and coffee shops. On that road we have come across excellent places to which we return on a second and third opportunity, although we have also known places to which we have promised not to return 😅.
The person who accompanies me most for coffee is my mother. We share many moments together of dispersion, and also of work. When I sit down for coffee with her, our favorite activity is talking. It sounds simple, but it's not at all. My mom is like a best friend, with her I can talk about the most banal topics in the world but also about important and deep things. The coffee runs out and our conversation goes on for hours, so sometimes we have had to order another round. We have many things in common and similar tastes. But also each one knows and is interested in different things, so we are always teaching each other, they are very enriching conversations.
I have mentioned several activities that I do, alone or accompanied, when I go to a coffee shop. However, my favorite is the latter. Going out for coffee with my mother and chatting for hours, before, during and after our coffee. I feel it is a blessing and a joy to enjoy her company and her wisdom, so whenever I can, I take the opportunity to have a coffee with her, away from home, and I enjoy it a lot ❤️.
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