About

What is the meaning of life?

This question stayed with me for a long time.

So long that it once led me to take a gap from Yale — not to escape, but to search.

I asked this question to more than a hundred people:

my peers, my parents and grandparents, my three-year-old niece, professors, entrepreneurs, CEOs of public companies, street cleaners, farmers.

Their answers were all different.

So I went out into the world.

Standing before a 2000-year-old olive tree in Greece that still bears fruit and produces olive oil, I felt how small I was.

Walking for six hours along white cliffs in the UK, without internet, meeting only two horses, I learned that when the body is exhausted, the mind becomes quiet.

Sailing across the Caribbean Sea in Colombia, waves splashing against my face, sunlight warming my skin, I felt a sense of ease I had never experienced before, as if I had become one with the universe.

On a coffee farm in Costa Rica, picking beans and learning how coffee is made, I suddenly thought of the tea mountains where I grew up.

The warmth in the farmers’ smiles in Central America felt deeply familiar.

That was when I realized:

no matter where people come from or what language they speak, they are remarkably alike—

hardworking, kind, and hopeful for a better life.

Standing at the intersection of cultures and languages, I understood my place.

I could become a bridge—

helping stories travel, helping people understand one another, gently.

Eventually, I returned home.

Back in the tea mountains where I was raised, I drank tea, breathed deeply, and let myself be still.

And there, clarity arrived.

In Chinese, the character for tea is formed by a person standing among grass and trees.

It reminds us that true peace comes from seeing ourselves and realizing self-consistency —

between heaven and earth, among all living things.

I grew up in tea gardens.

They were where my dreams began.

And they are where I found meaning — and inner calm.

This brand was born from that realization.

It exists to offer gentle moments in a fast-moving world.

To invite people to pause, to listen inward, and to return to themselves —

one cup, one breath, one quiet moment at a time.