My Daily Life as a Store Owner/Attendant | Coffee

Coffee is bad but it gives a comforting feeling - a peaceful mind like helping someone to relax. It’s good but everything that is too much we already knew what’s the result…

5 in the morning or sometimes a little bit earlier I opened the store. Not expecting someone would buy immediately but still hoping there would be. That's how a seller thinks I guess. 4 years ago my mindset was not like this like I didn't care much about having more customers to come. Drastically, it changed all of a sudden when I finally understood how it’s important to attract more customers. Of course, if there will be more then there’s more to sell.

As early as I could open the store it was much better but it wouldn’t always happen depending the time I closed the store at night. Sometimes I slept at 11 in the evening when I closed the store, also when there were many things that I took care of. Just like a week ago, I watched our mother pig that would soon be labored. I was awake until 1 at dawn, afraid that she might be giving birth at those hours.Yeah, aside from watching over the store I’m farming pigs.

No matter how sleepy I was when it’s time to open the store, I forced myself to be awake. Yes, sometimes I had a headache from lack of sleep but still it’s bearable - that's when the coffee came. I slowly opened the store with no one else around. The pouring of water from the water pot felt so loud because of the extremely quiet surroundings. Before I took my seat and sipped my bitter coffee, I checked things in the store that needed to be done. Just like arranging the canned foods, the hanging coffee, the emptied bottles of candy and many more.

Then the water pot is creating a sound that is telling me that the water is boiled. Finally, as I comfortably seated in the chair I quenched the first sip of coffee. Thanks to it, it feels like heaven. Everything seems to have faded from the moment I enjoyed my coffee time. The hotness and the bitterness of the coffee urged me to forget the worries in mind.

“It feels amazing”, I uttered while feeling the deliciousness of coffee. Despite the hardships of life, if you don’t do something there will be no food on the table. Despite the hard life I’m having that sometimes exhausts myself, I couldn’t believe that I said it to myself. Actually, two days ago I wet myself from the tears because I felt tired from restless working hard; Not just physically but emotionally as well. Yes, I have complaints about life especially when I get tired but I never had regrets about the life I chose.

That’s why I love having coffee every morning because of what it gives to me. Very relaxing and yes, I could tell it’s my “ME” time. I don’t care if no one is there or no one to talk to at the moment. As long as I’m having a coffee time, it’s a pleasure to enjoy the time alone.

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