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Starting to do new things that we hope will become a tra-
dition is actually pretty easy. e hard part is whether they
will stick. Sometimes it seems like something should make
a great tradition, but it just doesn't grab. Other times, the
cringiest things go viral. How did ugly Christmas sweaters
become such a thing that companies now compete to see
who can mass-produce the tackiest sweaters possible?
Sometimes we unfortunately need to have someone either
move away or even die before we can change some tradi-
tions. My recently departed nearly 98-year-old father-in-
law loved minced meat pie for the holidays. No one else in
the family could even pretend that they liked it! Each year
we would buy a minced meat pie, but no one else would
touch it. Every year we ended up throwing away the pie
with only one slice eaten. is year, we won't be buying any
minced meat pies. Kinda sad, but not really.
It's okay to let traditions die, rather than drag them on
indefinitely without any joy or sense of purpose. In the end,
that was the real message of Fiddler on the Roof. Life goes
on and it is up to the living to make sense of it all and plant
the seeds for what might become new traditions.
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