Starbucks
April 23rd, 2009 | Posted by in MusingsI am blogging remotely from starbucks. Gotta tell you I love the wordpress iPhone app. Free and east to use. Anyway. I had a random thought at starbucks today. The thought was this. How did a place that was so central to my life 2 years become an after thought. I used to go to starbucks every day when I lived in Memphis. Maybe 2 times a day. I went on my first date with my wife at the starbucks on germantown parkway. So starbucks was a huge deal.
But today I am sitting in a starbucks and it feels weird. After going to local coffee shops in Nashville like the Frothy Monkey and Fido, Starbucks feels bland and clinical.
So what I am gathering from all this is twofold First, there is life after Starbucks. And second that our experiences shape our desires. After experiencing a better Coffee environment I no longer pursue the delights of Starbucks.
I hope that as I pursue God and experience him that my sanctification makes me see my sin in the same way I see Starbucks…no longer satisfying. I hope you too will find your pleasure only on the one who created you.
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I hear ya bro. I’ve never been a fan of the bucks, glad to see you are turned on to more local mom and pop stores. Never been a fan of the big corporate chains.
Here’s a good website to check out.
http://www.storyofstuff.com
Very cool correlation btwn your experience with Starbucks and how our sin should/could be through Christ’s strength. I like!
One thing I never really got is how there aren’t more local coffee shops in Memphis. Starbucks has a strangle hold on that city. Otherlands is really the only quality local coffee shop I am aware of in Memphis.
I had a thought coming into work today as to why a corporate style coffee shop has done so well, like Starbucks… even beyond Memphis (of course). Coffee and teas can be like a comfort drink. People drink it when they go to read, go to invest in relationships and chat it up with a friend, on the way to work for a pick me up, on a first date, etc…. so as folks gain a “favorite” drink, if they are getting that fav from a local coffee shop, they are unable to fulfill that comfort drink exactly the way they’re used to when they are not in the local area. Instead, Starbucks allows folks to pick that comfort drink and obtain it all around the city, and all around the country. Random, I know, but I was thinking about your reply from Mon and that popped into my head.