and what about tea

Just another day in the office, it's about 4. It's time for tea. The office worker shuffles into the kitchen corner. Turning on the boiler, she is carelessly grabing a cup.
Yellow and pink comic letters announce "We are there, when everybody let you down". Another cheerful advertisment slogan of an insurance company.
The boiler utters his usual "click".
In the cupboard the employee can decide between pickwick strawberry, pickwick cinnamon, a no-name earl grey and a package of loose green tea. She picks up the earl grey and frees the bag from its paper wrapper.
The bag bumbs up and down the water, the tea dust colours the water in the familiar grey. The paper end dangles over the edge.
A minute later she pulls up the soaked bag, dripping brown drops over the floor. She adds low calorine sweetener and returns with the cheerful cup to her computer.

I think that's about where we arrived concerning tea culture: on the same level with wine-cola and Döner Kebab with Ketchup. And yes, dear Senseo-fans, this fast food culture also covers Senseos: these practical, fast, convenient, coffee-producing, secretaries- unemployed-making angels.

Saturday I experienced the ritualization of tea consumption in completely new forms! Tea is not only a drink, its a philosophy. In several rounds one is cleaning the cups with boiling water, puring the tea from one cup to another, sniffing the tea aroma and dinking only little portions.It becomes a meditation!I don't wanna do that everyday: but I wanna do it one day. I want slow, thoughtful, deep, rituatlized, old-fashioned culture!