Given the choice most people who I know would prefer the company of others when dining....unless, and that's a big UNLESS, 1) they have had a shit day, possibly at work 2) are not well, mentally or physically 3) HATE people....,,,
When we lived in the States we had a wonderful dinner companion who we would look forward to meeting every week on Thursday night. I miss these dinners now as I climb back into my memory bank and think of these comfortable evenings.......it first started out as a meeting for drinks after work for the 3 of us....I would always ask for my girly cocktail to be mixed with less alchy and my friend would get the remainer of whatever spirit I was drinking that evening. The 3rd, my husband would vascilate between beer and wine so there was never a need to dilute or amp up his drink. Somehow along the way these drink meetings would linger into the dinner hour when we would start to get peckish....this lead to the ordering of a "few snack" to nibble on....then we found ourselves ordering full on entrees!!!! We quickly picked up a regular routine of meeting up every week and pouring our hearts out to each other. Sometimes there would be blissful drama to recount regarding work.....family......or our private lives. I guess that it would be the equivilant to going to weekly therapy sessions.....the regularity of the evenings would keep us sane. The regularity was something that you could rely on....something that one needed in a metropolis like ours....
I find myself trying to recreate this regularity.....and know if my heart of hearts that its not meant to be recreated ever. That is fine with me.
Tonight I have decided to invite a friend of ours, a single gentleman, who we often dine with. I think that its good for us to have others over to eat and share not only food but thoughts with as well. Food definately tastes better when shared with others.....
01/03/06 @ 09:56