Some coffee beans in a farm grew together and ended up in the same bag. They were very happy in the confines of the bag and it was the world to them, nothing existed beyond it. In their innocence, they did not know what sunshine or rain or wind meant, they did not care where they came from or where they would finally go, and their area of concern started and ended at the bag they were in - until that fateful day.
That day someone opened the bag, took some of the beans out and spilled them around. Some beans ended up in a small household and became a beverage for a day, a few travelled all round the world and were served as coffee in a beautiful cup at a renowned restaurant, some landed in a perfume shop to help people sniff different aromas, and others were taken at a farm and became the seeds to grow more beans like them.
More such beans grew from them; more snuggled up in their cozy bag-cocoons, more bondings were made amongst the beans - unaware, carefree, rosy bindings – only to be broken again, only to be spilled again.
Very pretty, though I can't guess what made you think of it :)
ReplyDeleteThere's so many objects you can think of this way, once started!
:) right..i too had the idea with me for so long before i could narrow down to coffee to express it. The basic idea came from my friends who never seem to be sticking at one place..ha!
ReplyDeleteFrom Java to a sack full of beans! Or is it beans to a hot cup of Java? After reading this creative piece, one may have to think twice before killing'em poor ol' beans (if you read Roald Dahl's BFG (Big Friendly Giant), you'd start calling human beings as human beans..:-))
ReplyDelete@Pallav: i missed out Road Dahl's works in my childhood...was more of an Enid Blyton fan...but this concept of human beans sounds really hatke..would definitely check it out. Guess its never too late to be a kid again :)
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