This blog post is quite different to my other weekly posts, slightly weird and random some may say but it's something we all have an interest in, something we all consume from once a day to ten times a day. (No exaggeration. Some of you people are tea-a-holics)
What's the first thing you offer a guest when they come over? A cup of tea?
Or when you go somewhere and you hardly know anyone, 'Would you like a cup of tea?'
It's a conversation starter.
Then the following questions asking, What kind of tea? Apple, mint, ginger, lemon? How many sugars, milk or no milk, PG or Tetley?
I don't know about you, but that question, 'A cup of tea?' lightens the mood. You can learn about similarities and differences between two people because of a cup of tea. More than 2 sugars, they've got a sweet tooth, any less... they mean business! (Kidding. I don't take any sugars but I have a sweet tooth.)(Nor am I serious)
It's such a British thing, isn't it? Though it was taken from Asia (I think), it's seen to be a rather 'posh' hot drink. When people think about tea & Britain, they think of the Queen. Thumb, index, middle and ring fingers holding onto the handle of a pretty flowered cup and the pinky finger sticking out. 'Tea with the Queen at Buckingham Palace' (Even though many of us are not allowed beyond the gates of her crib)
Tea comes from different parts of the world and it's amazing how a simple 'cuppa' can get people from around the world together.
You share tea, you pass around the pot of tea, and it's that small gesture of sharing that can bring two people close together. It's that 'cuppa' that gets someone to open up on a dull rainy day.
Sometimes, when I'm having a not-so-great day, I like to meet up with a friend or sister and sit in a coffee shop and have a cup of tea or a hot chocolate. (I dislike coffee)
It's warm, comforting and kind of fills that lonely empty feeling. (This may not apply to many people like some of you men. A beer or a good steak does it for you :P )
Tea is a bit like Hookah/ Shisha/ Argilie (The flavoured tobacco that is smoked through a big pipe).
You can't have Shisha alone, you need to have someone there. It's a social thing. And again, the conversation starter... 'Do you want the pipe?' Which then leads to... 'Do you have shisha often? What's your favourite flavour?' (I am not going to lie, when I have the pipe, I tend to hog it. Not a good trait.)
So yeah, that's it really.
It may be something so little yet it is something so significant. 'A cup of tea'.
A conversation starter, a comforter, a heater, a socialiser, the problem solver, the helper of a creative mind (etc)
(Let's not forget the biscuits)
I like me a cup of tea.
Off to have a cuppa now.
Pip pip
Cheerio
Tata
