Every day, social media is overflowing with positive thoughts, new words that define these thoughts, tips and tricks for work-life balance — the list is endless. So, recently, I read about something called the 'Life-dinner' concept. Ok, some of you may be aware of it. But for some like me, it may be new. No, the concept is actually not new; a fancy word to define something we do almost every day in India.
When we were young, my father used to say that Father's Day and Mother's Day are all ideas born in the West because in the West children after a certain age did not stay with their parents. So, they choose this day to celebrate and be with their mother/father. We used to feel bad then, as children because our father would not appreciate our wishing him on Father's Day. Today, after many years, I can understand what he meant then. Don't get me wrong. I don't have anything against these celebrations. My only objection is, we cannot simply imitate the Western culture and values. Anyway, let's come back to the topic of the day. 'Life dinner' as a concept was introduced by Brad Feld, a venture capitalist, author and blogger in his blog in 2008. And after all these years, it somehow resurfaced again. 2008 was obviously a year when there were very few bloggers and social media was still nascent. So, this concept did not become very popular. 'Life dinner' according to Brad Feld is when you fix up a certain day in the month when you catch up with your spouse. Yes, you heard me right! You give each other a gift and post-dinner you go on a night out to a favourite place or explore a new place. I revised Brad Feld's blog post on 'Life Dinner' today and to my surprise found no likes. More surprising, because if you google the term 'Life Dinner' you will come across many articles around the same topic!
Well, 'Life Dinner' for me could be good for 2 kinds of couples:
- Power couples, who hardly meet each other.
2. Couples experiencing problems in their relationship.
For the second type too, I'm not too sure how useful this could be. In India, families like to have at least one meal, preferably dinner together. When I mentioned this concept to my husband, he laughed and said, we do it every day, don't we? In fact, coincidentally, yesterday I read an old interview of Aishwarya Rai (popular Bollywood actor) where she said that when they are at home, as a family the Bacchans always prefer to have dinner together. So, even celebrities eat dinner together; they don't fix a date for that.
Reading does you good, and sometimes, you come across things, that make you think. Do we over popularize everything today because social media is so easily accessible to all? Sometimes, the kind of workshops and programs I come across each day on social media, I wonder if attaining the goal is even possible — for example, a workshop that helps derive joy in 7 days — sounds ridiculous to me! There are tons like this. Either people have too much money to splurge or have lost their rationale — or maybe both are true!
What do you think? Do you buy into these concepts?
This blog post is part of the blog challenge 'Blogaberry Dazzle' hosted by Cindy D'Silva and Noor Anand Chawla in collaboration with Monidipa Dutta.
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