So, today’s
round-table-brainstorming-session in seldom functioning - dormant mind is
‘TRADITION’. What is it, actually? Why to preserve it? Are there any
pre-requisites to call something as a ‘tradition’? Or is it just the dust of
thoughts that stuck to us on our road to ‘Modern Era’ <Modern Era – Again,
What is it? – Later :P >
Just because
something is old, can it be a ‘Tradition’? O.o Never and ever. Umm… Perhaps,
‘Tradition’ is an ‘Idea’… Yes, it should be… Traditions are Ideas. That’s why
they’re never meant to perish even though the people who cherish those, does.
Just because it is
an idea, can it be a ‘Tradition’? Hmmm… No… No no no noo…! Thinking of it, ‘Tradition’
is something that people created, with or without consciousness that once
became a part and parcel of their prosperous living. ‘Prosperous’,
indeed. Customs can’t be whole-heartedly followed by a hand-full of millions if
those were of no good, right?
But, then again the
truth be told, there were/are, instances of ‘sati’ (There are some voluntary
cases too – ‘brought up’), ‘infanticides’ (no words), ‘sacrifices’ (Man ! 1000
+ selective-livestock for a deity per day is not fair, at all… I mean, no
consumer has ever done that, before. Do you mean, that’s why that is a ‘GOD’
-_- ? ‘Retarded’, you are. Let me say that again, ‘Re-tar-ded’ –
syllabification may be wrong :P ) and many more. So, why did/does the
‘tradition’ opt for such things? Perhaps, a random old-champion-geezer’s ‘dark-words
of welfare’, once said actually became reality, then. Or perhaps, a
broken-man’s play in the past. Well, that may or may not be the case. Yet,
‘THAT’ something that initiated all those cruelties a long ago deserves a ‘R.I.P.’
etched coffin.
<Why have I
become social, all of a sudden? O.o “A SOCIAL ME?” >
Inner-voice says, “ignore
those :P Light casts shadows ;) “… And this so called ‘tradition’ has always
walked along with ‘Culture’ which came to existence due to people’s
differential habitual scattered all around the territory of the ‘Then’ Earth. Now,
who is to blame? :P The physical land? :P Ridiculous <Can cast a Potter’s
spell now :P > !
There are certain
customs that are indeed beautiful… far beyond admiration… yet as simple and
calm as a ‘vacuum’; hardly noticed; yet strikingly gorgeous ;) We may not necessarily
save its loveliness.
“Earthworms we not;
Earth-dorms (we make) – Earthly bombs” (Quote from: Paradise69)
The damage starts when people develop ‘What’s-wrong-in-doing/not-doing-it?’
and ‘Now-or-never’ thoughts for the ideas that must remain intact. After-all,
it is us who created IT. And, that is also the reason to treasure it J
We aren’t bound to
protect it. We have no reason to cherish it. But again, it is we who decorate
our society J Drawn from the flowers of ancient
‘Tradition’ and ‘Culture’ are those small; feeble petals that we are accustomed
to. We can forget those; destroy those; or we can cherish those ;) “The Power
is yours” ;)
I rest my case J
- A speck from Traditional Space (A ‘Thoughts120’) ;)
