Traditions provide security and a sense of belonging. Something we do year after year, inherited from previous generations and something we would like to introduce to the new family we create. A way to honour those who came before us, a way to define our family values.
But there is also the flipside. Traditions filled with expectations and demands. Traditions with restrictions - do this but not that. Something is right and something else is wrong. If you don't follow the tradition, you are different and different is hard if you want to belong.
So why not pick what you like, enjoy what is and leave the expectations outside the equation? The season ahead of us is filled with musts and have tos. Or you can decide that this year is the year when you will put all of that aside and just go with your own flow.
This applies to any old tradition, including yoga. This was the theme on Tuesday and it continues to be the theme today.
So when I, according to tradition in my family, put on the telly this morning to see the Lucia celebration from one of the city churches I was reminded of my own sense of right and wrong. All of a sudden during the Lucia procession, there is a rapper who interrupts the beautiful song from the choir. That's how I interpret it. For a short moment I thought it was a mistake. For younger generations? It's probably a welcome ingredient which connects old with new, something that they can relate to perhaps more than the songs that have been sung since the nineteenth century.
Conclusion? Have courage to make the tradition your own. Sometimes breaking with tradition could be a good thing.
But there is also the flipside. Traditions filled with expectations and demands. Traditions with restrictions - do this but not that. Something is right and something else is wrong. If you don't follow the tradition, you are different and different is hard if you want to belong.
So why not pick what you like, enjoy what is and leave the expectations outside the equation? The season ahead of us is filled with musts and have tos. Or you can decide that this year is the year when you will put all of that aside and just go with your own flow.
This applies to any old tradition, including yoga. This was the theme on Tuesday and it continues to be the theme today.
So when I, according to tradition in my family, put on the telly this morning to see the Lucia celebration from one of the city churches I was reminded of my own sense of right and wrong. All of a sudden during the Lucia procession, there is a rapper who interrupts the beautiful song from the choir. That's how I interpret it. For a short moment I thought it was a mistake. For younger generations? It's probably a welcome ingredient which connects old with new, something that they can relate to perhaps more than the songs that have been sung since the nineteenth century.
Conclusion? Have courage to make the tradition your own. Sometimes breaking with tradition could be a good thing.
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