STRANDOMS: the stray and random thoughts
January 17 ,2025
Prof. S. Ramkumar
TEA
It is not tea – it is “teaing”!
Having tea is “tea”ing : beyond a drink, it is always a medium of connect.
Have you ever thought that our daily life can be divided based on the teas we sip? From the bed we wake, usually the first purposive start of the day is with the tea we relish- alone or together! Tea-connect starts with every dawn in the family, and stretch through work places and societies throughout the globe where we exist.
The wake-up and evening teas are the major life boosters. The 11 am tea is the rejuvenator for the day, where closer faces share closer feelings for a break.
Tea is the Universal Socialistic drink of connect.
There is no day without you drinking a tea, or you not seeing somebody taking tea! Life revolves around tea (many varieties now!).
We take it when we are alone to bounce the boredom and kick start an active mind. Any meetings we attend formally or informally… scientific, professional, party …tea sneaks in to the heated or cold discussions, adding vibes across the table. Tea can start conversation in a sad or tough time and divide sorrows. It can refresh the joys and multiply when shared.
The feel of tea, makes better relaxed minds, preparing them lighter to respond!
Tea shops (from the old street-side tea stalls with benches to sit and read daily newspapers, to the present day tea/coffee shops and Net cafes, where people sit and sink into their cellphones) have been important meeting points – formal or informal- bringing people around.
Interesting point is, even through the different revolution-eras the world have gone through, tea still plays its dominant role on the present technology era. One of the universal human-connect mechanisms before, and after cellphone eras is the tea. Only difference is tea is shared between people who are physically in proximity before the digital era; cellphones connect without proximity and tea!
Happy teaing!
