It has always been a tenet of mine that we must not become a slave to Tradition.

Things become traditions because they happen over and over again. As long as we WANT to do something that is traditional, or it otherwise goes on, not harming anything, it can exist. It is when Tradition interferes with modern life, or we have a desier to attempt to establish something new, that we must not find ourselves saying, "But I cant, because it is tradition to..."; and then fail to do what we desire.

We make Traditions. Traditions do not make us.