/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I've had a lot of tea in my life. Cheap teas, expensive teas, teas from all around the world... and today, I think I had the best tea I've ever tasted.

It was completely unexpected. It was just something on sale in the supermarket, so I grabbed it on a whim, with such low expectations that I didn't even try it for several days. Today, I saw it in my tea shelf, thought "eh, why not give it a go," and made a cup.

And... it was amazing.

I can't describe the taste to you. I can describe the feeling though. Have you ever been in a bad rut in your life? Either you've had a particularly terrible day, or a really stressful week, and you've just been bottling up all your emotions without even thinking about it? Just soldiering on, pretending everything is fine and that you're handling things like an adult, and then the slightest act of kindness just rips you open? You just start crying, overwhelmed with relief that you didn't even know you needed? You even feel a little sheepish and stupid about just how happy you are, but it's all right because you're allowed to feel so happy about even something so small, because all you really needed was a reminder that there's some good in this world?

It was that. I wasn't even having a bad day or anything, I just was hit with that sudden blast of "Everything is going to be all right."