Cafein against thinking disorder (1-2 shots before or after meals)

Our Round Table in The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

My friend is playing with chicken
pieces on her plate. I am saying
"think of hungry children in Africa, they would slap you in the face
badly if they had enough energy to do that". "Come on sherry,
it would not help them in any ways if i finished everything i got",
she is giving me a strange look making obvious that she thinks
how naive i am sometimes...I regret my little pedantic attitude, not the way i think about being empathic with those small stomachs..

Then i am attacking my black coffee remembering that freshly-brewed coffee is one of the best smells in the world. I am saying "the coffee is goooood" to the waitress with tired, swollen eyes (due to her long working hours)...Our smiles are welcoming each other, i am thinking that smiling must be the best thing on the world which is free, so easy yet so hard for some & sometimes...

Another friend is asking "Sherry, what is going on in northern-Iraq, are you attacking Kurds in the villages?" . One more sip from my coffee which is already getting cold, " No, the army (not we) is sending missiles onto the mountains where the Kurdish terrorists (separatists) have been living/hiding, not on the civilians". When you are abroad you find yourself kinda defending your country's moves... "I am not a nationalist, Turkey is a nation-state which is not homogeneous, quite cosmopolitan with ethnic diversity (Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Roms...), i believe we all can live peacefully in one country".

"Sherry, we know you studied international relations but please don't use this diplomatic smart-ass attitude to escape from our discussions, we are friends and you are neither under an embassy roof nor in your country's territories, just relax and speak out!"

"I am just feeling over-responsible sometimes, don't wana talk bullshit only because i licked information off some foreign policy books for 4 years:)".

"Okay, lets change the topic, do you think the EU* will let you in soon?"

"Ugggghhhhhh! Excuse me! Can i have one more coffee please, no milk!"



*Turkey is going through the negotiation process for European Union membership.