- Go to a birthday party and start pondering on the whole notion of a celebration
- Notice how people in the birthday party gather in groups by age, gender and kinship
- Notice how people who seem lost in the party tend to recede into the background of the room, quietly eating
- Question why do we have feasting to go with celebration
- Start wondering why people gather round a cake with candles and sing a ritualistic song
- Question the idea of having candles when there are electric lights
- Question the whole idea of coming together to affirm the existence of somebody's life.
- Start thinking that you might not be as modern and new-age afterall, you still have rites and rituals to follow just as those people in tribes and villages have celebrations and feasts.
