Breaking the Traditions

We all come from different countries that have their own culture, beauties, awkwardness and traditions. The question is how much people do care about traditions and respect them when it comes to apply them in their own life? How traditionalist each of us is?
We tend to think and say that we are so modern and so different from the older generations, that we are so open minded and we are opened to embrace the new, break all the borders, be international, take examples from others and be original, be creative and do things as we want. Because we are free and because we can.
Well when it comes to weddings or baby parties or any other party of this type, things seem to be stopped in another century for some of the people.

If you go a bit over the "normal" and "usual" you can be considered weird or with lack of respect for the "Tradition" and nation and great grandparents. Who says and where it is written that we have to follow the crowd? That limousines are a must for a wedding or the bouquet toss or  that if you don't follow the plan step by step, the wedding won't be a wedding anymore. Who says that fancy baby parties with people all dressed up posh and with all kind of show-off are a must? People spend tons of money to go fancy, they are so caught into this Hollywood non-reality that they even forget the real purpose of the gathering.

 Of course if you step out of the "everybody does that" crowd people will comment and judge and try to give you advice on " how wrong it is not to follow the rules of how it should be, and how everybody does it and you should do the same". Yeah well, you cannot please everybody, but by the end that's the beauty of it, not being like everybody else, being special. Trust me, deep down some of the commentators will envy you for standing up for your ideas and for making something new.

I agree, traditions can be nice (some of them). They are a part of our culture, of who we are and represent the environment that we grew in, but some traditions are way too aged and with no sense, and they fairly are just needed to be let go.
I admit i'm not that traditional when it comes to this things and i will as well break them when it will come to parties that i'll have to make. I think it's normal to make for example your wedding or baby shower or baby party the way you want not the way others do. We have our own style, and since it's our event we can make our rules. It is allowed to bring something from other cultures, it's even necessary, if it's something beautiful, that can give happiness, that can help make our special day the way we dreamed. Because we can and because we are allowed. And those who won't like it, bad for them.

We have to create our own history, improve, change, become better, have something of our own. Traditions were created also by people so i think we all have the right of creating new ones.
But that's my opinion, like it or criticize it. By the end of the day i won't change the whole world, i just hope that the people that share the same ideas will make a difference and give an example of good "Different".

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