Traditions (10 Days Away)

It's finally here, we're 10 days away for the year's best holiday. So how do you plan on celebrating? I always say you can never really prepare yourself for Festivus Miracles. The most challenging aspect is recognizing the miracles as they can seem insignificant.

Every year, we hold ourselves to traditions, even if they are irrational. For example, millions of Americans slave over a turkey for hours. But for what... Majority of turkeys (from my experience) are cooked terribly dry and most likely destined as cold cuts, the lowest of places for meat. These traditions tend to mean so much emotional that we lose sight of how some of them were so terrible doing from the year before. But yet, they frequently feel like checkboxes on a checklist.

"We're not doing this next year" is all too often deceiving.

The worst part of it all is that those traditions get dreadfully passed on year after year. That's why I am pledging not to participate in traditions that I find mundane and perceived to have lost its meaning.