A cup of tea.

What does it take to uproot and remove yourself from the comfort zones of your life, to really go into something unknown and unfamiliar. The first you feel is loss of control. You feel edgy, a little off balance, easily irritated,looking for solid ground. You venture out into open space thinking you might find refuge there. The birds there seem to draw you in more deeply than when you were at home. You notice the smiles of children and respond in kind, their mothers look back at you perplexed if not curious. Than there are the older ones who remind you of a gentle and warm past, where you sat under the shadow of trees in the hot summer evenings, sipping on your well pampered tea. But you were home than, or at least you thought. It was all so familiar, and you did not notice the birds nor the smiles of children. You were just there in the familiarity, and the warmth, and it was enough to carry you through, or at least till the next day. But here much of it is very familiar, and thats the hardest part, especially when im sitting in the late evening sipping away on a cup of tea.