Coffee Club

I’ve been thinking…I know, I know…that’s pretty unusual isn’t it? Well what happened was, I woke up really early this morning at about 3am. I felt really parched, decided to stop by the 24 hour Woolies on Orange Street to pick up an Orange juice and went for a bit of a drive to clear my head.

What I noticed at the 24 hour store, at that late hour, was that there was a group of people trying to talk AT each other. I’m not sure if they were trying to impress, but I got this feeling that none of them were actually listening to each other and each person just wanted to land the last word in each sentence.

On the drive, I began thinking that people these days tend to talk AT each other rather than talk TO each other. The biggest difference between these two types of communication is that in the latter; one actually listens, digests the others ramblings and responds with an appropriate thought-about response.

That’s perhaps why I love our coffee club so much. Coffee Club was held at Loading Bay this morning, and what I’m really beginning to appreciate about our little meets are that there are all types of people from all different walks of life in different professions who just get together, socialise and enjoy each others company. And best of all it seems that people actually communicate and listen to one another.

Being selfish and egotistical I have a penchant of calling it MY coffee club, but to be honest it hasn’t been MY coffee club…well since ever…except when I was in Joburg and had all these meetings with myself. I get the sense that the coffee club is really starting to develop its own identity and become a special social event for many people at the beginning of every weekend.