The Corner Coffee Shop

Brief (coffeeyo.com): A quiet corner coffee shop, a young silent owner, and a lone regular who finds solace in its stillness—a small meditation on solitude, freedom and the comfort of a warm room on a rainy night.

Reprinted from: Xin’an Evening News. I still clearly remember the first time I stepped into this place: a late-autumn evening, drizzle in the haze, the whole way damp and chilly. I had no umbrella, but as I passed by, I hesitated for a moment and then walked in.

The moment I entered, what hit me was warmth, tranquility, and an indefinable style. Under the dim light, the roughly ten-square-meter room was laid bare: two long narrow tables with five stools, on the wall hung something that might have been Monet or Van Gogh, and in the corner stood a green vine with various little trinkets hanging from it.

The owner is a young man, probably a post-2000s kid, tall and slim, wearing a brown sweater, calm and silent, quietly doing the work in his hands. After a flurry of faint sounds, the coffee was served, and the room returned to how it was. I sat there drinking coffee, staring blankly at the glass door, saying nothing. He scrolled his phone quietly behind the bar, making not a sound either.

I suppose I fell for this atmosphere, coming without fail once a week, and each time I was the only one there. He never spoke, and I stayed silent too, never asking whether the little shop turned a profit or such questions, though I was somewhat curious. We both savored our own share of solitude and freedom.

A cup of coffee, a small room, a glass door—as if they could shut out all the noise of the outside world, and I become the world. This brief ease could actually let one shed the fatigue of the day and focus on one’s own heart, reaching a short and subtle sense of detachment from the world.

Adults have seen too much liveliness and grown weary of social interaction; occasionally having a stretch of time all to oneself, without the need to speak or to socialize, is a rare gift.

Source: Xin’an Evening News.

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