Life Stuff: On Tradition

After reading a quote posted on Baggas' blog it triggered me to think about tradition and post a comment. I just wanted to capture the thoughtline here.

I believe that there is nothing so life draining as uncompromising, inflexible tradition such as reptitious Church liturgy or outdated music. Dead Tradition.

Conversely, there are few momments in life that are captured quite so powerfully as traditions that celebrate life or assist with introspection or commerating a rite of passage such as the Olympics, birthdays, christmas, baptsims, thanksgiving, or teaching your kids to pray each night. Living traditions.

A wise Man once said something like "Traditions should be created to serve man - and not the other way 'round".