1/36 — Given the Choice of Anyone in the World, Whom Would You Want as a Dinner Guest?
Once you get past obvious answers (Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and my Mom), you realize this isn’t an easy question. What exactly would you like to get out of this dinner. Is it going to be about you or your guest?
On which side are you?
Do you want to have a famous, intelligent, powerful, good-looking, etc. person at your table to make you look good in front of the other guests? Isn’t it a bit too shallow, albeit very pleasurable? (Hello Guilt! my old friend).
Let us take the other guests out of the equation and assume this is an exclusive dinner for two (and not a rehearsal of your wedding party). And let us pretend that Jamie Oliver will be cooking. If only, to relieve you from the temptation of inviting someone to cook for you! Let us focus on having a good dinner, if only to be able to forgive since, in the words of Oscar Wilde, “ after a good dinner one can forgive anybody. “
Based on my experience as a couchsurfer’s host, you can go with anyone. The first dinner, as the first date, is never a boring event. There’s a whole new life to discover! The second dinner is the tricky one; would there still be anything to say after we discussed the past? Or, to put it differently, are you ready to build a future with this person?
I would go for the kind old lady, who’s always greeting us when my son and I cross paths with her on the way to school. She seems crazy enough to be fun at parties!
It was question number 1 in the “36 questions that lead to love” series. An alternate question is: “ Given the choice of anyone in the world, for whom would you want to take out the garbage?”
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