Coffee Table

This is one place where you would practically see all sorts of emotions…

A few years back the only thought that I used to get whenever I saw a café was, “a place to waste money” ..why should or why would any person as a matter of fact shell out money for a cup of coffee when you can make one at home?

But over the years as I grew older and when emotions and solitude start to hit you like starry meteorites, I found that at the coffee table I could leave all those things to rest.

Sometimes just getting out of a place and sitting at the corner of a café redolent of brewing roasted coffee beans, watching the people go by , kids playing around and laughing , birds pecking at the crumbs of the leftover butter croissant … can give such an immense sense of peace and a moment of reflection..

In addition to the aromatic therapy of the coffee table what pleasantly surprises me is how the simple café has encompassed a variety of emotions. The proposals of love, candid talks, gossips of chattering women folk have left prints of beautiful memories on them and I bet if the coffee tables could talk, it would be a delight by itself to hear these wondrous tales.

So is this the magic of the coffee table or the brewing aromatic coffee or simply the beauty of the human mind to extradite itself to the fumes of the mesmerizing brewing beans..

Well to unravel that mystery, a nice cup of cappuccino in a French style café would help..

Half Empty or Half Full

This has always been a trick question used by psychiatrists and interviewers to understand how the human mind works..

Well the situations could be different when we take the well-defined example of the glass containing a liquid of any desirable form ..

Critics say it can be analysed in two ways : either the glass is empty or the glass is half full , the defined answers will tell you about your character traits. But wouldn’t these two answers be the already predictably set answers that anyone would answer and moreover would it be fair to judge the person by the set of answers he gives.

Well to a certain degree, it wouldn’t be fair because then we would be categorizing the person solely based on the answer that he gave when he was in a particular mindset. So does that mean that the person has to be constantly alert and on his toes so as to not be wrongly cataloged or categorized??

Well my question is, is it superceedingly right to categorize a person when he gives either of the answer and what is the possibility of a third answer?

Well if I was asked this question, I would have three different answers in three different situations.

If I had an emotionally wrecking week and I was just desperate to get a job and then comes the question of how do I perceive the glass, well anyone can guess that my answer could be “the glass is half empty”. Now critics say that this answer shows that I have a low morale and I am pessimistic person, but sorry to say wouldn’t that be your answer as well considering the circumstances.

Second instance, an absolutely confident week, great things happening in life, the answer to the same question would be “the glass is half full”. The answer would be so if the previous questions preceding this question were answered well. So does that mean that I am not an introvert or I don’t have a pessimistic attitude towards life?

And the third answer would be, “the glass is full”. Its half filled with water, the rest of the half is filled with air and my imagination to think so.

So what psychiatrists and the interviewers would then select is the third answer, being that I thought out of the box and on my toes.

3 different answers in three different situations…

So ideally it is not about the glass being full or not full , its merely my ability to write about this glass which is the main context of this blog.