The power of TEA!!!
An article about tea; a mysterious and wonderful drink that is so often misunderstood…
Last night I was meant to be going out down the pub! But instead I had had to stay in. There is a reason for this and this reason doesn’t fill me with pleasure. The reason is, I am a complete and utter idiot! Earlier I was playing football, not very well, but I was playing football. Then I came back home and got showered and ready to go out. As my parents were out I had to let myself in with my key. I did this fine, no worries, no problem. Then after I had showered, straightened my hair and had a little bite to eat, I was ready to go down the pub. So I put my coat on and I was going to go and get the 8 o’clock bus. Obviously as I was the only one in, I had to lock up…damn. In the short time it took to open the door and walk into my house, I had bafflingly managed to lose my key! How? The key has no legs, there are no trap doors leading to lost worlds in my house (as far as I know anyway) and the cat certainly didn’t steal the key as she is too lazy and to steal the key would mean getting off her big, fat bum! So without being able to lockup I had to opt out of going down the pub and stay in to wait for my parents.
Now at this point you may be asking, what on earth has this got to do with tea? My answer to that would be, ‘wait and see.’
When my parents got in I said hello and asked them how their day was like any good son would. They replied in the usual unenthusiastic and drained manner that it was fine. I then commented on how nice my mum’s hair was and this was where all positive ‘chi’ ceased to exist.
For some reason, my family is highly skilled in the art of arguing over the insignificant and unimportant. We can argue over anything; the positioning of the peanut butter in the cupboard, a 19p pen that has gone missing, a piece of cheese which has been cut wrong, I think that at a push we could even argue quite angrily about the varying hairstyles of Bon Jovi over the years! Anyway, in this instance the argument was over the semi-missing key. It got quite heated; well actually my mum got quite angry which in turn made me even angrier and as usual I lost it and told her in ‘no uncertain terms’ to shut up.
An hour had passed and I was beginning to calm down (only because of some amazing music by Becoming the Archetype, but that’s a different issue all together) and feel a bit guilty. I was beginning to think also that I have to try and make it up with my mum other wise their will be bad feeling for the rest of the weekend which isn’t good for me and isn’t good for the rest of the Gee household. Just as I was thinking how to break the ice and amend this horrid situation, my mum intervened and offered me a cup of tea! (See it’s only taken five hundred and forty words but I’m talking about tea!)
I accepted the offer of a cup of tea and we both apologised to each other. Amazing, the healing powers of tea! What a drink! How many other drinks can say that they have mystical healing powers? To my knowledge, none! Granted, tea can’t heal the Bubonic Plague or Ebola but it can have a go at curing the mental effects of them. You see this is where the drinking of tea can become misunderstood; I am currently wearing a shirt that says ‘BEER HEALS ALL WOUNDS’ it doesn’t and the problem is, that people think that tea can.
Quite a while back I ripped a large proportion of skin off my knees in a bike accident and still have extensive scars because of it. When the accident occurred I was quickly whipped off to my mate’s Grandmother’s where I was cleaned up and looked after. I was also given tea, a very nice cup of tea, very sweet, not too hot, not too cold, not too strong and not too weak, it was just right. Drinking the tea made ME feel better; it didn’t however make the pain subside. This is a common misconception of the healing powers of tea.
Tea is a drink for bad times, it can be the first steps to rebuilding a relationship, and it can be a way of taking your mind away from pain. Granted it does these things very well with its mysterious powers but it cannot heal like many people wrongly think. If your leg falls off it will not grow a new one for you, if you get a horrible disease you will not be cured and if you die and someone gives you tea you won’t be reincarnated. Tea is a drink that brings people together in times of need, it is a mysterious drink that can heal sad thoughts, tattered relationships and tired minds. It can do nothing more and nothing less. Before one can fully appreciate tea one must understand it first.