Greeting potential,

After providing parenting training on the Gayo highlands, one of the world's best coffee producing regions in Aceh, Indonesia, I visited a local coffee plantation. The location is not far from the training arena. This is my first experience, as well as being the curious answer of many years to a thing called coffee, which is so phenomenal in the lives of almost everyone in the hemisphere.

In the midst of tracing and enjoying the sensation of the coffee garden tour, while occasionally paying attention to the detail of the original color and shape of the seeds of the marbles even smaller, my co-worker friend who had been following me while helping to unravel the leaves and twigs for us can go further into the plantation area, vent about life.

According to my friend, his life was not lucky, what he did always get scathing criticism even though it is true. In essence he complained about many things that hurt in his life. He feels like a small person who is not perceived or belittled by the environment. Although acknowledged that he was trying to rise for his presence appreciated, at least considered it is enough, he said.

Furious to keep hearing the complaints of friends, we stop the steps. "Friend, as long as you know .. your life is not lucky because your life experience is less painful". Received a counterattack, the temanpun confused.

After calming him for a moment, yes some kind of natural relaxation, I invite him to look deeply into the coffee beans hanging in front of his eyes. Pay attention not only with the invisible eye, but with the body's sense and intelligence.

Slowly my land began to build subconscious communication with her as she was focusing on the coffee beans in front of her. While herding so he kept trying to find meaning behind the form of small coffee fruit, even looks trivial while still in the wilderness.

And subconscious communication through the labyrinth of coping stories flows to climax sentences. Choosing to be coffee means choosing consciously to make ourselves the subject of changing the environment and the world. Like coffee that changes the color of water, then in pain that peak (boiling water) the coffee actually appear full of honor and served on the tables of each strata of humanity as the spreader of tasteful aroma and taste.

With this awareness of the surplus side, a small fruit named coffee is a subject that enriches millions of entrepreneurs, prospering millions of families who plant and care for it, happy almost every human being who gulps it, or launches the business of millions of business actors who serve it, to become a symbol of the silaturrahim adhesive among us .

In the school of life, coffee reenacted my friend to the promise of God 'behind difficulties (pain) there will be ease'.

Three months later, I was informed that he had become a professional and one of the leaders in the oil & gas company. The story in the coffee garden is the turning point of his new life. He promised to always be a coffee for the lives of many people through his present work.

Good friend! Thank you our great teacher, coffee.

Greeting potential,

                                     @fazlul