Johan Horak's Blog

…… all who wish to flee the tyranny of coffee crazed lives and escape the frazzled fast-paced race-to-stay-in-one-place existence that it fuels. ….

we have come to learn that coffee is about speeding up and losing sight of, while tea is slowing down and taking a look.

Because tea is not just a beverage, it’s a conscious altering substance that allows for a way of getting in touch with and taking pleasure from the beauty and the wonder that life has to offer.

Well, my intention today is not to stop your coffee-drinking habit.

All I am asking for is that you consider tea; the slowing-down-time – the ritual – with friends, nature and beauty. All I am asking is for you (us, humanity) to re-consider the race for more. Because I believe we have enough.

You are enough. You don’t need to find more. All you need to find is yourself. And the life where you need a coffee -kick-start-to-face-the-race is out dated.

A few days ago I read this article by Umair Haque called Is a Well Lived Life Worth Anything?

Instead of an “energy industry,” I see a resource addiction that saps money and preserves self-destructive expectations. I see, instead of food and education “industries,” an obesity epidemic and a debt-driven education crisis. Instead of a pharmaceutical industry, I see a new set of mental and physical discontents, like rates of suspiciously normally “abnormal” mental illnesses and drugs whose lists of “side effects” are longer than the Magna Carta. Instead of a “media industry,” I see news that actually misinforms instead of enlightening — rusting the beams of democracy — and entertainment that merely titillates. Read the rest of this thought provoking article here.