What's #life Should Be In Coffee Shop?
What will you normally do in the coffee shop? Revise? Have tutorial lessons? Or just enjoy the yummy food and drink? In nowadays, most of the coffee shop and fast food shop such as, starbucks and Mcdonald, they are the best places for teenagers to revise and so homework. However, under this fast-paced city, have you ever think of put down all your stuff in hand and try to rest for a few minutes and look around whats the things are happening around you? You may find some simple things in our daily #life that you have neglected it, but it can actually catch your attention or it may even impressed you.
I am a full-time athlete, and I was graduated from secondary school two years ago, and I have taken the HKDSE examination as well. Two years later, I have also taken the IGCSE (chemistry) examination as a private candidate. I can say I am a typical Hong Kong teenager, which means I will go to coffee shop or fast food shop to prepare for my examinations. Then you may ask, it is already a trend in Hong Kong, so any things special?
I may say I have a different way of thinking while I was preparing for both of my examinations. I feel much pressurized when I was preparing for my HKDSE exam, mean while, I feel a bit relax in preparing the IGCSE exam. So, I can have more time to look around, try to sense the things which are happening around me and the people who are beside me. From the idiom, " The person on the spot is baffled, the onlooker sees clear. The onlooker sees more of the game". Since always, I was under the impression that all things happening around me are in a hurry, like a fast forward mode. However, under my observation, all my thoughts are being pushed over.
Sitting at the side of the coffee shop, sweeping across with my eyes, listening with my huge ears and feel it with my heart. Thats what #life should be. Coffee shop should be a place for relaxation, a place for you to listen to the music and try to forget all the worries happened in daily #life.
When I look around, I suddenly feel that coffee shop is like an office in the morning and it will turn to a library at the time when the students are off from school. In the morning, over 90% of people are adult with a computer a side, checking email, typing proposal e.t.c
I can see that they are striving so hard for their living so as to maintain a better #life for themselves and their family. About 4, the people around me change from some business man to students, reading their books and doing their homework quitely. Looking at them, I suddenly think of my past when I was still a student. Buying a cup of coffee and stay in the coffee shop for at least four hours. It was really a tough moment for me as I had to balance the time in sports and academics. I was striving so hard to get a balance in between as I really don't want to give up on any one of them. Being here in the coffee shop as an other identity, all sorts of feelings well up in once's heart. They are revising so hard to get the best grade in their tests and exams, I am doing the same as well. Having the target of people studying with me under the same atmosphere, I suddenly feel that I am not alone to face the examination. So, I will have more motivation for revise.
Staying whole day in the coffee shop, I feel substantially ready for the exam. However, I still think that coffee shop is a place for us to relax with a cup of agrypnotic drink. How about you.