mugs and teacups

   I love tea and honey.  Many people offer milk and sugar with tea but I prefer it with honey alone.  I have always preferred drinking tea out of mugs.  I have always had great mugs around and tea cups were...less common.  As a result I have lots of experience with mugs and very little with tea cups.  I like some mugs because they say funny things, and others because of their size,shape,or thickness.  Different mugs have different benefits and based on them, I choose the mugs I use.

   So one day I am out and about and I see this tea cup.  It is a very well made tea cup and I notice it.  Over a few weeks time I continued to notice it.  Then it began to bother me that I was noticing this tea cup.  It was so well made I believed it must be very delicate.  Being a cautious person, I could not justify waltzing into the store and saying "I'm going to take this tea cup, Thank you."  I wanted to know more about it, but I was so nervous about even asking, Why?

   I was talking with some friends about it.  I told them all about my abundance of apprehension regarding this tea cup issue that had arisen.  Why did I have any apprehension at all?  What was my problem? Am I not being quite silly about all this?  I got some decent feed back...

Having always used mugs, it only makes sense that I be more careful.  Mugs are more sturdy and should I decide go with a tea cup I would have to treat it in a completely different way.  The things I would need to do to take care of it are complete different and I am not accustomed to them.  I was relieved to think about this and realize this and categorize what I felt was quite silly as quite understandable.  So I resolved to inquire about said tea cup.

All that to find out that it is currently not for sale!  Ho hum,  at least I won't feel quite so awkward the next time I see a tea cup I like!