I had such a coffee cup. In fact, I had two identical ones. I got them at Starbucks shortly after we arrived in Maryland for our year-long stay in 2010. The kitchen in our "fully furnished" apartment had coffee cups but they were small and uncomfortable in my hand. I was at Starbucks for a "virtual coffee date" with Claudia, my long-time friend ("old friend" just sounds wrong!) from Arizona, when I spotted the perfect coffee cups. They were tall so the coffee stayed hotter and had pretty blue, green and brown foliage on them. They reminded me of Claudia every time I used them.
After we returned home from Maryland in 2011, they continued to be my favorite, go-to coffee cups. Several years later one of them broke but it was okay because I still had one absolutely perfect coffee cup.
Until earlier this year when I broke the second perfect coffee cup.
I was sad and pretty sure that finding the perfect coffee cup only happens once in a very long while. I randomly used my other cups and they were okay. Just not perfect.
About a week after the demise of my favorite coffee cup, another long-time friend, Anne, gave me my birthday gift. It was a beautiful coffee cup... but could it replace my old favorite? Anne had no knowledge of my breaking the other cup, she just thought it was pretty and that I would like it. She found it at a cute gift store we went to together one time.
The second morning I used the cup I realized it could be my new favorite coffee cup! It's taller and narrower at the bottom than most cups, keeping my coffee the perfect temperature. I love hummingbirds so I loved the design from the very beginning. But the longer I looked at the cup, the more I realized the design was about energy, something Anne has a lot of!
Several months have elapsed since I received the new coffee cup. It has, indeed, become my new favorite! That doesn't mean I loved the other one any less; it's just that they are different.
Kind of like friends.
And while I am thankful I have a new perfect coffee cup, I am more thankful for my friends, without whom the coffee cups would just be cups.
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