My girlfriend and I have been doing this as well. Having come from an evangelical Christian background, it still feels right to have a collective ritual that occurs before eating. I’ve been exploring the intentional creation of ritual as a memetic tool for making things happen that don’t organically occur but are net beneficial. It seems to me there should be many more cases like this, rituals we would benefit from adopting even if we don’t have cultural or religious reasons behind them.
My girlfriend and I have been doing this as well. Having come from an evangelical Christian background, it still feels right to have a collective ritual that occurs before eating. I’ve been exploring the intentional creation of ritual as a memetic tool for making things happen that don’t organically occur but are net beneficial. It seems to me there should be many more cases like this, rituals we would benefit from adopting even if we don’t have cultural or religious reasons behind them.