Don't allow old traditions to become permanent mental scripts for managing your life in the present. Reason: you will not be able to transform yourself to think differently and be better as you grow with age and maturity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.
Your traditions change from when you are child to when you become an adult.
In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.
Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.
You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.
Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.
You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.