I am not sure if i would ever feel this inspired again. but i wanna pen it every single time it hits me and gets me going.

Today began all gloomy and dark because work has the inherent ability to consume every shot at happiness and get us started on the regrets of what could we have possibly achieved.

So there was the routine crap at work and i thought its gonna end like every day, so wrapped up with making money a god and feeling all disgusted at how i have become.

I wanted a drink and needed one to keep whatever good that's left of me inside and not involved in my battle against work. So i dropped by this cafe near my work place. Its called Jewel Coffee. I didnt think so much of the quality or label. It didnt matter in the grand scheme of me escaping work cancer.

i ordered coffee and salad. There was just me and the boss. we started having small talk and that translated to a most meaningful life lesson.

He told me it was his first attempt at business and he wanted it all good. He had the best coffee grinder, espresso machine and the best people to manage his business. He said that there was always good coffee, and then bad sandwiches or good bread but bad coffee. Why couldnt one have the best of both worlds? He was a coffee lunatic who has impressed me with his eye for perfection and passion for the industry. He could go on and on about how his coffee cups are easy on the hands and coffee are filtered to its best with the chemex filters. Then i offered my thoughts on how he could increase awareness and improve the bottomline. I was being such as asshole. He wasnt concerned about profits. He wanted to serve good coffee and it ends there.

for me, it was his personality and not the coffee that came through. i see passion brewing at its finest and magic working its way through the aroma that filled the air. It wasnt about the paycheck at the end of the day, was it? It was all about enjoying what you are doing. I have had opportunities to be like him but was frozen with fear of failing.

I shouldnt need to feel this way. nobody has to. I dont wanna be busy being afraid. not anymore

we can make a jewel outta anything we want to.

why not now