SALT COFFEE


I can’t resist sharing this from a dear friend, with the rest of you, because I really like the romanticism to the core – Hope you enjoy it too!

He met her on a party. She was so outstanding, many guys chasing after her, while he so normal, nobody paid attention to him. At the end of the party, he pooled up courage to invite her to have coffee with him.  She was surprised, but being polite, she promised.

They sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything and she felt very uncomfortable. She thought, and almost began to plead – ‘please; let me go home....’ and just then he suddenly asked the waiter. "Would you please give me some salt? I'd like to have it in my coffee."

Everybody stared at him, so strange! His face turned red, but still, he put the salt in his coffee and drank it. She asked him curiously; why you have salt in your coffee? Is this your hobby? He was nervous but replied: "when I was a little boy, my family lived near the sea, and I liked playing in the sea, I could feel the taste of the sea, just like the taste of this salty coffee. Now every time I have the salty coffee, I always think of my childhood, think of my hometown, I miss my hometown so much, I miss my parents who are still living there", and as he spoke tears filled his eyes.

She was deeply touched. She could feel his true feeling, from the bottom of his heart, and thought - A man who can tell out his homesickness, he must be a man who loves home and family, cares about home, feels responsible for home.

Then she also started to speak, spoke about her faraway hometown, her childhood, her family. That was a really nice talk, also a beautiful beginning of their story.

They continued to date. She found that actually he was a man who meets all her demands; he had tolerance, was kind hearted, warm, careful. He was such a good person that she almost missed him! Thanks to his salty coffee, that sparked their conversation!

Then the story took the standard course of the princess marrying the prince, and then they lived happily ever after …... And, every time she made coffee for him, she put some salt in the coffee, as she knew that's the way he liked it.

After 40 years, as in normal course of time, he passed away. But he left her a letter which said: "My dearest, please forgive me, forgive me for my whole life lie ….. The only lie I ever told you --- the salty coffee. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous at that time, that although I wanted some sugar for my coffee, I ended up saying “salt”. But because I was so nervous, it was hard for me to change, so I just went ahead with the salt in my coffee. I never thought that could be the start of our communication! I tried to tell you the truth many times in my life, but I was too afraid to do that, as I have promised not to lie to you for anything.

Now that I'm dying, I afraid of nothing and so I tell you the truth: I never liked the salty coffee, what a strange taste it was….. But I took the salty coffee for my whole life! All for your sake!  Because I knew you made it for me with love, and in all earnestness. Since I knew you and your affection for me, I never felt sorry for anything I did for you. Having you with me is my biggest happiness for my whole life.

If I can live for the second time, I would still want to know you and have you for my whole life, even though I have to drink the salty coffee again".

Her tears made the letter totally wet. Some day, someone asked her: “what's the taste of salty coffee?”  “It's sweet”. She replied.

Love is not to forget but to forgive, not to see but to understand, not to hear but to listen, not to let go but to HOLD ON !!!!