As we sit relaxing inside one of our usual coffee shop in the late afternoon, trying to get out of the summer heat to enjoy the cool air conditioned air, we routinely have our lattes and laptop ready to do some work. What was unnoticeable at first is very apparent when you really start to look around the the coffee shop. To the right you can see a few single individuals who all have earphones plugged in their ears and are tuned out of their surrounding, yet to the left are a group of people who are enthralled in a conversation of screenwriting and story telling of the scene they are putting together in a movie/episode( California Coffee Shops). Yes, this image you have seen on TV does really exist here in LA.
The coffee shop is an anomaly by itself not just in California but in any location. It is able to bring forth creative work in people and yet allow people to meet and catch up with old friends for community and also as a place of refuge for some to unwind and get away from reality.
With our laptop and smartphone near us, we filter the outside world away and seem to be inside our own bubble. Ironically, the coffee shop is full of noise, with the pounding sound of the barista trying to get the coffee grinds out to the shushing of the espresso machine heating up the milk, all this background noise inside the coffee shop has become the “white noise” that we allow to soothe us and somehow fuel or creativity and yet calms our inner soul. It is quite a paradoxical experience. This may be why we are so drawn to coffee shops, beside the addictive nature of the coffee itself, the atmosphere has become a kind of space where we can express ourselves.
In life, all we really want to do is to be ourselves and express ourselves with purity Just like the coffee shop experience, we find ourselves trying to be creative and find a space of our own to calm our inner soul but we too often don’t learn to block out the noise that is all around us. Instead we let the noise, whether it manifest itself as social approval or gossips in our life , we let it distract us from producing and creating our best work and it keeps us from finding peace and calmness within ourselves. It is knowing how to find a way to block out the loud noise around us that we are able to use this noise as our “white noise” to our advantage. Learning how to transform a distraction into a type of “focus” is a great skill we will need to do in this age of technology we live in. Don’t let the distractions be a crutch we must carry every day but let the noise around us be the “white noise” or “muse” to propel us forward everyday.
Create your in home “Barista”
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