Do you really want a coffee shop?

You must have heard this many times. From one person's mouth and from different people's mouths, you are sometimes surprised that so many people in the world want to open their own cafe. Even a person who knows little about coffee would want to open a cafe.

When it comes to cafes, we always think of sunny afternoons, the mellow taste of coffee, the gentle whispers of men and women, the yellowish and warm light of night, a moment of mind wandering and trance. These are opposed to cubicle office offices, business banquet proposals at the negotiating table, and your nerves starting with "busy day" every week.

Do you really want a cafe? Are you in love with coffee? Fell in love with cafe life? The answer is in fact at a loss.

Most of the time, this yearning for a cafe is just a yearning, which is limited to the two sentences described at the beginning of this article. This yearning is like the moment when the proposal written by the boss stayed up late for three days in the conference room was shot on the spot, the impulse to strangle the hideous person opposite is as short as the office syndrome. One of the self-fantasy therapies for modern workplace stress syndrome, which also includes, "I'm going to travel around the world," and "when I have the money, the company will buy him directly."

If you ask him: when are you going to open a coffee shop (around the world?) and where are you going to open your coffee shop? Where do you want to go most? There is no clear answer to all these. We always believe that if we live somewhere else, our dream life will be better in the future, but in fact we haven't done anything.

Is it true that opening a cafe will be better than your current working life? Less stress? The answer is definitely not necessarily.

A few days ago, a junior high school classmate who was not familiar with me passed by my city and invited me to have tea. In the eyes of his classmates, this young man, who likes to be superior, unexpectedly told me that his dream was to open a similar teahouse in the soft light by the Xiangjiang River, oh,mygod! Another one! I think his work income is good, all kinds of infrastructure projects across the country, this is a rich place in the eyes of many people! He said that it was very hard, traveling and making connections. It would be nice to have a teahouse like this and chat with people every day.

Another person who dreams of escaping from his life is doing a brief escape and treatment for work stress syndrome, while another person who yearns for life only dares to talk about life as an ideal instead of living it with courage.

If a coffee shop is the life you want, then you need the courage to build a coffee shop from scratch, to face the dismal flow at the beginning, and to face the daily rent, utility and staff management. until finally, this coffee shop exudes your unique temperament of careful maintenance and attracts a group of like-minded people, and you can easily chat with them and talk about life. This process should not be simple at all.

But often, people who clamor for a coffee shop don't really want it, but when they are tired of life, they show a smile to their colleagues and friends and to the world to prove that they have not been overwhelmed by the dull life.

The cafe is like a platform for releasing the ideal of life, beautiful and warm, yearning for a cafe, life often turns a lot, but never reaches this stop, life, ah, to another place.

Do you really want a cafe?

At a warm winter sun in the afternoon, you might as well slow down and think about your life.

(excerpt from "meaning Space")