Numerous times throughout the year and in various locations on the globe, people do things that they did the year before. Many times, they're not really sure why they're doing it. They saw people doing it last year, thought it looked interesting, and wanted to join in this year. Some by peer/family pressure. Some by themselves. But year after year, town after town, house after house, people are bringing life to something from the past. So today, when a certain celebration is going on throughout the world, let's take a look at traditions. And for good measure, a funny by Mark Twain at the end.
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.” - G. K. Chesterton
“What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.” - Thomas Carlyle
“Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.” - Mark Twain
What traditions do you do that are hard to justify?
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