Physical Intelligence - Day 49

Weddings and the parties that arise in the Summer and Fall are definitely a test for physical intelligence, and weddings that are planned during what are called "long weekends" ironically shorten the weekend for those who have been invited to attend them.   I remember a time when we lived in the poor end of London when weddings were 'One and Done" - the party followed the wedding on the same day and it was finished.  Now there is a one-upmanship culture in my particular community where a wedding is not complete without three or four visits to a banquet hall, all on different days.  Silently these people fret and worry how they will save up for these expensive events, never mind other expensive investments such as the cost of a modern education.  All of these lack any physically intelligent design. 

I am now facing tonight logging this after 1am and the same will be true tomorrow for what is b being called the main wedding reception.  There is a valued part of a wedding reception which has a good physical intelligence component to it, which is that weddings involve dancing.  The downside is that me treating the dance floor as a gym routine accompanies with it negatively social reviews.  Even the dancing has to fit a set pattern or ritual all determined today by these professionally paid people, with their special interest personal branding, that suggests people are doing them a favour by paying over-the-top rates for all manner of specialist wedding services.  We even get to dance tomorrow on a custom flooring with printed logo and names of the bridge and groom.  The only thing these wedding planners do not promise is getting Steven Spielberg to deliver the wedding video.

At least in the physical intelligence arena there are fitness people involves also, such as those who promise to get the bride "Wedding ready" :

It is not at beBee that I encountered the actual hardcore reality of personally branded existence, the personal brand as exhibited through Indian wedding culture is frickin insane.  Ultimately it is big enough and loud enough to cut right into my own individual efforts towards having a saner and wiser attitude about physical intelligence.  I will be a pariah if I put my own physical intelligence goals in front of the social face which is branded by wedding industry people.  As each incremental unit of brand layers itself upon the previous - the cost of weddings has not hit an upper limit yet . Somehow people find ways to meet the escalating cost and price.  For me the account here is not just a diatribe about a society that has not seen fit to question the economic viability of escalating events this way, but an individual realization of what it is I can do make these events a little bit more physically intelligent for myself, without appearing to be a killjoy who is "spoiling" the sense of occasion.  It is now 2am and it is Sunday morning and when I wake up, there is one more party left for this particular wedding, but it is the prelude to other events that are just complex and mega expensive in their delivery - and all of it a challenge to my own physical intelligence practice.