Catching Up Over a Coffee

It was nice to meet my friend

Drashti Shroff
2 min readNov 20, 2021
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Some social hangouts are simply magical. You meet, you greet and you sit and talk peacefully, about everything.

In a long time, I had a great time catching up with my friend today. We decided to meet at one of my favorite café. I particularly love this café for its soothing ambience. It is based out of a two storey house and a subtly decorated terrace. Their sitting arrangements include about four low heighted round wooden tables, surrounded with short legged chairs or beanbags. The tables are spread over each corner of the terrace which gives each set of customers their own space to talk and socialize.

The terrace is beautified with star shaped yellow fairy lights and a series of medium sized yellow bulbs supported by an interwoven wooden frame that together adds to its aesthetics. While you wait for the ordered cup of coffee, you can feel the gentle, but not very cold breeze swaying past you. The atmosphere is calm, quiet and peaceful. You can stretch your legs in the front and rest your head on cushioned chairs and stare seemingly at the night sky, while you take a deep breath and feel the moment.

My friend and I, we talked about many things, family, work and upcoming travelling plans. We ordered a cappuccino each and sipped the aromatic beverage in contentment. We spent…

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