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every table taken at your favorite coffee shop, but you wanted to sit and read? find a stranger who's not taking up their whole table and who looks nice and ask if you can sit at their table. 99% of the time they'll say yes unless they're waiting on someone. maybe you'll sit together in complete silence the whole time. sometimes tho, you'll sit with someone who sees what you're reading and you have a great discussion about it.
it's really a win win situation. you get a seat in the crowded cafe and possibly you'll leave knowing a lil bit more about the community you live in. maybe you'll even make a friend!
(p.s. this pic isn't a stranger, it's my dad, but he'd be a great stranger to sit with at a coffee shop, i promise.)
Mar 3, 2025
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learning the lore of the patrons. its like "omg! you know my friend"
Jan 20, 2024
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I have posted many times about my Friday adventures to the cafe. As I am trying to learn to take myself out on dates, I also am trying to make some friends and acquaintances along the way. I’m trying to develop a sense of community for myself outside of home and work.
Yesterday I had a lovely time drawing at the cafe and I had a conversation with the older man who was sitting next to me. I think he’s been there once before but this time he was asking me about my art. I learned that he used to make art as well. It was a really nice little chat and it really made me feel alive !!! :) I hope to have more instances like this in the future <3
Mar 29, 2025
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I just love people that I don't know yet. Here I am sitting this coffee shop, listening through the unwrapped, and I see people that I want to know.
Some of the real life people I now know best and that know me best were strangers a year ago. They didn't exist to me, nor I too them. We wouldn't have talked. But now we are knit together—young, old, rich, poor, black, white, introvert, extrovert—we are knit together at the heart: linked by our humanity and desire to connect.
Wish you were here. I'd buy your coffee.
Dec 19, 2024
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this idea of "you don't owe anyone anything" came about through the social media therapists that try to diagnose complete strangers with a multitude of issues and complexes. all it has done has made selfish people more selfish and divided us as a community.
you do not owe everyone everything, but if you consider yourself part of a community, a society, you do owe everyone something. at a base level you owe people kindness, respect (as long as they haven't lost the right to it), and basic human decency. you owe your loved ones even more.
stop being selfish and rude in the name of treating your so-called "people pleasing."
Feb 4, 2025
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if one more person tells me to turn one of my hobbies into a business i'm gonna go berserk. is nothing sacred in this late stage capitalist hellscape?
Feb 3, 2025
i swear to god it's upside down and it makes me giggle every time i see it. pls tell me you see it too and i'm not crazy. i love it.
Mar 24, 2025