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[Brian]
The prinicple which guides the feelings I have toward my family, my food, my habits. The invisible. I have not been able to craft my own yet, and I hope that the art of tradition building will be one that I can leave to my family without it being quite so obvious that I am doing so.
March 25, 2006 09:13 AM
[rosa de buisonje]
TRADITION
March 25, 2006 09:20 AM
[AwesomaDuh]
4 words. Fiddler. On. The. Roof.
March 25, 2006 09:42 AM
[anastasia]
In the popular book the art of traditional family building, at chapter six, it is recommanded to keep close as much as you can an em. it seems to facilitate this fullfilling process.
March 25, 2006 09:43 AM
[Faithe]
I like traditions. We don't particularly have any in my house, well, we do, but I don't really like them. I like nice traditions, like the Swedish girls with the things on their heads and the candles and the such. It's amazing, like Kirsten from American Girl, but it's better because you can, like, do stuff. I tried to make one of my own when I was younger, but my mother didn't have garland and candles and wouldn't let me light them because
March 25, 2006 09:50 AM
[tone]
one her way to continue the traditoin place by her ancesters she was contemplateing not having to go for she was afraid that in her comtempt she would not fulfill her position that she was supposed to...
March 25, 2006 10:12 AM
[pony express]
pathes that societies (given by the groups of individuals before us) have selected as appropriate line of conduct to reach a purpose. the range from very adaptive to estreemly innovative. But the second one are shared among few. Nobody would love to leave according too much innovative sets of consolidated behaviors. well, nobody not, just few.
March 25, 2006 10:23 AM
[jd]
The norm in which we govern our behaviours specifically in terms of the social and private sphere. Implies repetition based on a timely matter
March 25, 2006 11:25 AM
[cutie]
Families create traditions, cultures do too. A tradition is something that is carried on from time-to-time and is ritualistic in terms of mimicing the first time each time. Humans adore traditions a
March 25, 2006 11:38 AM
[juzzuj]
as well as it has degenerously and degeneratingly been forceful on all of us til we understand it as the one to succumb to in order to not feel its weight we cry about it.
March 25, 2006 12:08 PM
[anon]
Oh lord, what an excuse tradition is. Excuse for--I'm bored, and I don't want to come up with something better to do. Excuse for--I'm lonely, we have to, I've been looking forward to this all day. Excuse for, I've outgrown this and I'm too old but I miss it and I miss you and I want to feel your comfort again.
March 25, 2006 12:26 PM
[Ed]
"It's tradition, damnit!" Jacob yelled. The woman seemed unphased by his aggression. "Tradition my ass." She said in a deadpan voice, consulting her PDA. "You know, you still owe me 500 dollars, Jaco."
March 25, 2006 12:42 PM
[Beth]
Holiday tradition. Opening presents under the tree. Stockings on the chimney. Family Tradition. Food smelling heavenly coming from the oven. Friends Tradition. Going to see that movie the first day it comes out, even if it sounds dorky. Tradition. Repetition. Something you'd never want to stop.
March 25, 2006 12:48 PM
[Andrew Fisher]
Fiddler on The Roof is one of my favorite movies of all time. I highly recommend that you see it.
March 25, 2006 12:54 PM
[Kristin]
There was once this tradition, long ago, that stems from the inner depths of Ireland. It was long said that once a boy came to the age of 15 that he would be sent packing onto the coast and catch for himself only things he could eat raw.
March 25, 2006 01:16 PM
[olo]
thougths and ideas that comes from the past to make the future just as boring
March 25, 2006 01:29 PM
[Blue Dragonfly]
Whatever. Don't wear your doc martin's to church -- always an argument with my mother when I was in middle school. Now it's funny to see how what we wear doesn't matter so much - as long as I'm not too rumpled. I've worn jeans to the ballet in Colorado. And then there were the days when we dressed up just to travel on a plane. Funny traditions dying away. Part of me misses itchy tights and stockings -- still I'll never wear them again.
March 25, 2006 01:36 PM
[M.Nguyen]
A car crash occured today due to the fact that someone was driving down the wrong lane on the road. An uproar was caused in the church today because some hooligans decided to play a prank. The traditional funeral was shucked today for throwing the body into the river. Not too many people were very happy.
March 25, 2006 02:16 PM
[shawnie]
Why all those thanksgiving dinners and christmas and well every other holiday dinner takes place. Why? Because we did it last year. Why do we put peanut butter on our oreos? Because, we did it last year. Why do we have those silly get togethers? Because we've been doing it forever
March 25, 2006 03:17 PM
[Sylvia]
daily gathering. together, one year after the other. thanksgiving. all the smells of happiness. never ending. memories. tradition stops.
March 25, 2006 03:44 PM
[bambu']
better not to say anything becouse if get him wrong he will say your concept of tradition is not as awesome as his one. your one is going to be too simple, too primary, too unoriginal, too boring, too unchallanging, too repetitive, too pathetic, too low ,too dishonest, too bitter, too sweet, too oldish, too deatls. But his aren't so. his are better.
March 25, 2006 03:49 PM
[Valz]
I alternately love and loathe tradition. It holds me in a cage and at the same time comforts me. Tradition is something I try to create, but it's NEW tradition. It echos what I grew up with, but is altered just enough to have me believe I've progressed.
March 25, 2006 04:15 PM
[Jilly]
we go to his grave every year on his birthday to let him know he's not forgotten; it's tradition. sometimes he speaks to me in my dreams, so in a sense, he's still very much alive.
March 25, 2006 04:24 PM
[J.L.H.]
something that shouldn't always be kept like sacrifices stonings can be helpful family bringing people togehter sometimes stupid like organized religion (sometimes) just doing stupid things
March 25, 2006 04:29 PM
[TaylorJane]
It was tradition. It had been this way for hundreds, possibly thousands, of years. He had been preparing for this moment his entire life, and now that it was before him he wasn't sure he could go though with it. He steeled his nerves and they passed him the kiwi...
March 25, 2006 04:29 PM
[lo]
"This is a day of tradition." "You've got to be kidding me." "How can mooning the school be a family tradition?" "Because this school has done injustice to every family member of our line. Thus on April 9th ever year the whole family (including grandma) must drop pant, skirt, boxer or panty and moon the school."
March 25, 2006 04:51 PM
[jim]
three little dots...i just like em...like easter bunnies...velvet hearts in February...your birthday...
March 25, 2006 04:57 PM
[crabmuffins]
I throw the bronze pig to my grandfather, who throws it into the thames. "Take Mine Ashes Into Thine Delicious Stack Of Grilled Hams!" I scream. My grandfather dives into the water, and disappears forever. "Someday I Will Find Where I Put My Bloody Hat!" says my father, as tears begin to fill his eyes.
March 25, 2006 05:07 PM
[hunza1]
The way we've always done it (or at least the way we've done it for a while) has its problems, but it's worked well enough and any changes you put on it may not improve it, but worsen things so that you'll harken back to the way it was done before...
March 25, 2006 05:17 PM
[Mike Gottlieb]
old, outdated, legacy, family Tradition is a part of the heritage of every human being. We are creatures of habit and so much of what we do in life is based on the traditions of our ancestors and predecessors.Tradition is the vitality of culture and is what gives us each our unique outlooks to reflect our unique backgrounds.
March 25, 2006 05:18 PM
[mike]
Tradition is cool. One word, huh? Why don't you give me a picture? That's it, I'm talking to someone, sorry. She's my girlfriend if you must know...
March 25, 2006 06:13 PM
[nimue]
tradition can kiss my flaming arse, i don't want any of this dress up, any of the flames, or the choir, or the pretend marriages, or the fake love. i have no tradition and maybe that's what makes me incomplete, what keeps me from fallng asleep at night instead of basking in rest and release. i think of white hats and of strange shoes but really really good food.
March 25, 2006 06:32 PM
[An]
Life is a traditoin. It is something that plays over and over. It is family. it is youth. it is intoxicating to everyone who honers it. A tradition of words and colors and love. It is All.
March 25, 2006 06:51 PM
[elisa]
And it is a tradition that I am supposed to marry a man in my religion and culture. A tradition that I choose not to follow so much because this is America. Land where so much more than Muslim-Serbs exist, and where people are mixed, from whites to asians, to africans, canadians, indies, and more. Why should I follow what may be so hard to, when there is so much more to explore. Why marry an asshole and not a sweetheart? Why marry someone that I would have to spend half of my life in the kitchen for when I could spend the rest of my life with a him? I do not need tradition to define my love, I need someone who would care for me, want to start a family, and would want to be equal with me, not above me. In other words..I don't want to be you.
March 25, 2006 06:52 PM
[Ruthie]
And today I thought: "Well, what does it matter?" She's a pretty enough girl and we're all friends here. This was a tradition in our family- the first lass to enter with a boy was the first to be ruined. They were all ruined, and oh, what a pity it was. Each was so quaint and special and all so perfect. Ugh. I hated it. I hated them and their families, but what was I do do? Panties off. She was ready. Too ready.
March 25, 2006 07:01 PM
[cussot]
i have been struggling for years to develop traditions for myself, not having grown up with many. i guess you could say it has become a kind of tradition with me.
March 25, 2006 07:37 PM
[Mike]
Tradition is something that many generations experience. The blowing out of candles on your birthday, a graduation ceremony, water balloon fights at family reunions..
March 25, 2006 07:47 PM
[Evan HB]
The traditions of todays society... no that's wrong. Tradition in general, is bullshit. Not that you can't Have tradition. Tradition is fun and nice. But it's also limiting, and often logicless. Tradition should be followed if you please. But when a member of a group wants to break tradition, it should be allowed. Man I type fast, oh yeah.
March 25, 2006 09:58 PM
[von]
It has always been the tradition to reluctantly accept all awards given to you by a fellow family member around the holidays. We all know how trying these days can get, and we all have an idea of how harshly we can be judged, but fear not. For our days are almost over, and our lives soon to be done. The apocalypse is near, and we are caught. Nowhere to hide, and nowhere to run. Tradition finds itself at a loss of meaning when an end is rivaling it.
March 25, 2006 10:15 PM
[Naota]
Tradition is stupid. Destroying creativity, preserving the old ways, not the good ways. Keeping the over important, overly important. Causing the high and dry to become higher, dryer, and even more read.
March 25, 2006 10:55 PM
[gog]
i am........we see thru our filters...gogisme.yahoo.com snoring frequecies can sub sonic destroy.........kname the drug that allows u to hurt the ones most dear?
March 25, 2006 11:05 PM
[Sammy]
I don't believe in traditions. Doing something just because your ancestors did it is silly if it serves no useful purpose in modern times. Maybe I just didn't grow up knowing the value of the word.
March 25, 2006 11:43 PM
[kilo]
My family had many traditions growing up. Going to cut down a x-mas tree the day after thanksgiving, opening one present on christmas eve, a whole lot. But as time went on they just ended. :(
March 26, 2006 01:29 AM
[deirdre]
Fiddler on the Roof, the classic musical comedy/drama, has as a central theme the strengths and weaknesses of tradition. Family traditions, social, religious -- all have their uses and many have a detrimental effect on subsequent generations. I am not a traditionalist, per se, but there are traditions I enjoy because they remind me of happier times, mostly from my childhood. I don't think this thing's timer is working.
March 26, 2006 01:53 AM
[me]
i am happy for you that you want be different then me, it is good for you and bad for me, if i have understood well the meanings of what you want to convey. But what is the purpose in have been so long writing to eachother? Tradition? i don't understand.
March 26, 2006 02:20 AM
[gru]
tradition plays a part of our life, but i question the authority of tradition. in our culture, the progress of everything, almost everything, suffer from certain time that tradition has hindered their development, which i oppose
March 26, 2006 02:45 AM
[Ethan Duffy]
Tradition is the opener of fiddler on the roof. Woo it's great. Tradition brings people together with something they are comfortable with.
March 26, 2006 03:14 AM
[Kavitha]
Break the rules and step over the fence. Watch the sky turn upside down and you'll know...this is what a messy life is all about.
March 26, 2006 03:22 AM
[ross chambers]
thradition is a old deely and its about stuff and it kinda looks like the word turkey. but if your a vegeaterian then its kinda like turnip i guess? i like it when stuff happens easpeciially tradition cos i like words with t in them.:P
March 26, 2006 04:04 AM
[crazy_Horse]
As yes, tradition, thats what its all about isn't it. Our grandfathers and their fathers ... passing the torch so to speak!
March 26, 2006 05:37 AM
[Tempest]
I know that people feel stifled by tradition. If you pride yourself on being up on the latest trends then you probably feel that tradition has no part in your life. But, tradition can be beautiful. Heirlooms, recipes, stories, military honors, photographs, holidays. It helps to show your place in the path of human history.
March 26, 2006 05:42 AM
[Bluebottle]
The sort of thing you always do. What's expected. What your parents did, and their parents before them, and their parents, and so on back to before the dawn of time. The sort of thing you shouldn't go against. The sort of thing that's tolerated because it's always been done. Is it still a good idea?
March 26, 2006 05:56 AM
[Steve]
It's how we remember our values. Each generation must never forgot what brought them to this point in time. We always have to use tradition as a base for our actions.
March 26, 2006 06:40 AM
[jo]
It is a tradition in our family to have a dog. Ever since I can remember I have had one,my children were brought up with one, and they all have a dog in their family too.Unfortunately i have had to break this rtradition as I have moved into a flat where they donot allow animals.I think this is a great pity bu tcan understand the rule. However I might find it so awfulnot being able to uphole this tradition that I may have to move back into a house with a garden. Then I woukldhave to decide what sort of dog I wanted, anotherttradition that we had was to have bull terriers if this was possible. Not a lot of peoplelike this breed but if trained properly right from the start they are a lovely dog to own.
March 26, 2006 07:23 AM
[Jeff Beckerman]
Tightening his boot laces Connors sighed. Working his day off had become a tradition. He crossed the mall parking lot and rang the buzzer of the book store where he worked full time. A blonde man of about thirty years unbolted the door and pushed it open. "Connor, good morning! Thank-you for coming in today. Did I ever mention you're a real team player" he sneered. "Good morning Keynote. It's great to be here." Connor lied. It wasn't great it was just ok and that was one tradition that needed to be broken.
March 27, 2006 04:27 AM
[Danijel]
"Tradition", said my mom, answering my question. "You have to do it, because it is aour tradition, to marry in a church. If you dont, you will be kicked out..." "Kicked out?"
March 25, 2006 08:40 AM