Have I ever met up with a friend, coworker, partner, acquaintance or family member for coffee? Yes. Many times. Because, as they say, coffee is a drink that invites us to celebrate our social inclination. Meeting up to enjoy a good coffee is a deep-rooted tradition.

Facing a cup of coffee .

Coffee is a companion to triumphs, defeats, trivialities, joys, sorrows… throughout life, coffee (important or trivial) And the moment comes when you wonder why coffee is so important in your life. Why do you stop buying anything, to guarantee coffee?

Coffee is as important as the people you choose to accompany you.

Putting in parenthesis the coffee that I drink at home, with me, the which I enjoy it greatly. I have one person, the one I love, respect and trust the most, my son Andrés Manuel. In these last few years, he has been my number 1 companion and unconditional accomplice to accompany me and my coffee.

Our weekly meeting points are the coffee shops, large and small, near and far, that we choose to visit. We have learned to share more and more interesting conversations as the years go by. Reading, cinema and coffee habits unite us.

The city has conquered small and not so small places where coffee is an attraction to accompany breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner. And with this growing campaign, the public has also grown around it, who, pleased, gather around a table.

Andrés. Coffee shops have become our meeting place.

Andrés He is my only son, he turns 24 in August. He is an engineering student in instrumentation and control, he is about to graduate. He is interested in reading, drawing, comics, playing Scrabble, and doing exercises. He does not like groups, crowded places and noise. We have learned to communicate. We have been living alone for 7 years.

We go out once or twice a week for coffee. At home we share a cup of coffee in the morning, and at night, since I'm working most of the day and he's at university.

Weekends are fixed, he likes to go out on Sundays because there are fewer people, less traffic and in general everything is much quieter. During the week we choose a day when we don't have too many things to do and we meet at a café to take a break from the week.

Coffee shops. Internet.

We have visited places that are not really cafés. They sell coffee; but they are more like cybercafes. I will tell you that coffee in modern culture, as a perfect excuse to socialize, has given rise to the creation of spaces that offer additional services to satisfy all kinds of tastes. Here in Cumaná we have gone to café-theaters , concert-café and cybercafé.

In all of them we managed to find the ideal atmosphere, enjoy of our coffee and sharing the tastes of the things that unite us the most. Sometimes our children become distant. I think we should be careful with that, because the quality of the parental relationship marks adult life.

We must not stop betting on the approach and communication with our children. So Andrés is my favorite person for many things, especially for having coffee. His rather shy personality and his calm and relaxed temperament mean that I have to know how to narrow that bridge to reach him; however, I can tell you that these outings have borne fruit and coffee has united us around his complicity in each simple but significant encounter.
As simple as buying a cup of coffee.

All photographs were taken with my Redmi11 phone and edited in the PowerPoint program.
I did the English translation with Google.
The image of the coffee cup is from Pixabay