When did you last
hosted or attended a live BBQ? Hopefully you'll have to think about it to
remember when it was the last time. I'm a big fan of gatherings where we do
everything ourselves. For example in a live BBQ we do cooking from start to end.
When I go hiking with friends we do not take porters with us. Even after a long
walk we prepare our camp site, get the food ready, eat it, clean the place and
then start playing cards or go to sleep.
Due to busy schedule
I have been out of all these activities for quite some time now and I have felt
a very disappointing trend in people. You try planning any activity and people
will vote for a lunch/dinner at an expensive restaurant. When you reach, following
is the sequence of events.
- After you reach most of the people don't forget to check-in to facebook
- Order food
- Take selfies
- Once the food arrives take pictures of food and post it to fb (without even tasting it)
- Finish the food and leave
This is happening
too much nowadays and it has raised a couple of questions in my mind.
If we are planning a lunch or a dinner together, what
is the purpose of it?
Everyone will have
their lunch separately if we do not plan a get together. No? We plan a lunch
together so we can spend some time together that is fun filled. An activity
like cooking food together with friends give you a lot of time to have fun. If
you just go to a restaurant, order food, eat food, post on fb then what is the
purpose of the gathering?
Also if we start
posting about it on fb that means we are ignoring the people sitting around us
and talking to some other people who are somewhere else. Then what is the
purpose of the get-together?
Why do we post pictures of food?
Food is not a piece
of art, it has to be tasted to be praised. Deep in your heart just ask
yourself, whenever you are posting food on fb are you not being pompous? Are
you not trying to show-off the expensive food?
P.S: I write all of
these feelings I have just to provide some food-for-thought.
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