a cup of coffee

With a cup of coffee in my hand, i am sitting in the pantry... and looking out of the window... gazing at the snow capped (not covered yet... only a few months to go i guess) Alps in the far distance... thankful for the successful Go-Live today...
There are 2 people sitting at a distance and they are talking about random things, i can pick up on this conversation, they are not talking in french... The conversation they are having is a conversation i might have had with some random person sometime in my past with a few characters changed.. its a very normal conversation... did you hear XYZ has a kid, oh is it.. thats so nice... congrats... what does her husband do etc etc... normal small talk... i try to think about a similar conversation i have had... i cannot... but i can think of various conversations i have had over coffee.... about a few life changing decisions i have made over coffee.... life altering... and i think about those moments... those scenes flash in front of my eyes.... i am glad i made those decisions all of them... not glad in a "i stand by them" point of view... but glad in a i really am glad point of view..... i think about the completely useless discussions i have had over coffee, which i somehow still remember.... that lady who used to be sitting in the same seat daily (actaully am sure only about the weekdays) and writing something... and how we would talk about her being the next rowling... that was the time when HP7 (the book) was released and all we would talk about would be HP7... oh there were some coffees on the beach as well... believe me that is thought provoking... a cup of hot cappuccino in your hand... sea in the front... lots of ships in that sea... water looking amazing.... almost dusk.... and those lights in the distance which you have always argued (and never come to the conclusion) whether they are Indonesia or just some ships!!! Today sitting in that pantry on that "bar stool" gazing at the alps... i thought about all that... but most of all i thought about that one coffee i had had... that made me realise... more than the coffee it was the change in "settings" i would say that made me realise... but coffee was the catalyst i think....

coffee... what would life be without thou!!