Pondering and Coffee

What is it that sets a very relaxed, self pondering mood when solitary cup of coffee on a chequered table cloth/old rustic table wood is pictured.
I mean what do you imagine when you see the following scene,
a cup of coffee, tea or chocolate, a book and pen and some fading light. It somehow conveys to me a mood of solitary pondering.

I wish I could get a dramatic setting to paint this scene.
But I have over the weekend accomplished painting a solitary scene. It ofcourse does not do justice to the original photography but then I beg forgiveness as an amateur.
Will post it soon.