It looks like… a wrong question. I ask myself this question because I hear quite a lot of people often say “People who go to coffee shop alone usually have confessions, it seems that they are very lonely!”. How about people who make coffee? Do they feel lonely?

Yes, I think so. Coffee has a lot of power. Once you are swirled into the whirlpool of coffee beans, you will be attached to it forever. Drinking coffee seems lonely. However, people just have that feeling when sipping a cup of coffee and then they will hurry to get back to the life cycle. But, the ones who make coffee are different. Their mind completely belongs to the thing everyone thinks inanimate. They have coffee with them in the morning, in the afternoon and even at the late night. So when are they lonely while coffee is always beside?

The “wrong” thing that I mentioned before is that, when you enter the industry, start to learn the work is also the time for you to put aside your relationships, set aside the funs to completely focus on work. It is both wrong and right! Don’t tell me that I do not know how to balance life and work because I believe more than half of those who are reading this post have ever felt confused at the time they are halfway through their career and youth. Barista or any label for a career is just a “name”. With coffee, I am always stricter compared to the people around me. Be a real one who make coffee, don’t come to it just because of the thought “I am a barista”…

Back to the story of loneliness, start-up is the beginning. And the beginning is to accept to confront difficulties and challenges: You can not choose where to start and have to be always ready not to be left behind. Only when you are really engaged in work, in passion, and start-up that you can absorb the loneliness which very few people are able to understand…