Tradition?

[Chas]

It has always been a tenet of mine that we must not become a slave to Tradition.

Things become traditions because they happen over and over again. As long as we WANT to do something that is traditional, or it otherwise goes on, not harming anything, it can exist. It is when Tradition interferes with modern life, or we have a desier to attempt to establish something new, that we must not find ourselves saying, "But I cant, because it is tradition to..."; and then fail to do what we desire.

We make Traditions. Traditions do not make us.

I have no desire to be insulting or deliberately antagonistic, but there is nothing in what you have written with which I can agree. In fact, I would go as far as to say that it is all wrong.

Traditions exist only because they are of benefit to the majority of the people involved in that activity. That activity might be living in a certain country, or being part of a family, or following a particular profession or sport, or one of the many other things to which people align themselves i.e. kilt wearing.

People are, by their very nature, creatures of habit. It is how we learn to survive, first as children and then as adults. Our religions and our laws are only traditions that have been codified. Good manners and respect are only traditions.

Change for the sake of change, has never in the whole of human history, benefited anyone. Anarchy is the outcome.

Traditions do not make us.

Of course they do. We are all hand crafted by the traditions that have been in place since the day we were born. I think you have broken your tenet every day of your life and that is no bad thing.

Regards

Chas