Many people take pleasure in recreating an important event, a holiday, a worship service, a personal routine. Comfort and meaning can be found in predictability, repetition, and reinforcement. A calendar stating yearly events that our society chooses to remember and celebrate, a weekly schedule of Monday through Friday, then Saturday and Sunday, a daily routine of activities morning, noon, and night, all of these connect us to tradition.
Other people would rather create something new, vary or even omit what is expected, rebel against society's pressures, and resist the monotony of living in timeworn traditions. Creating or experiencing something new can be stimulating and refreshing. Circumstances in our work or family life may require us to live with some traditional patterns; however, we may have more freedom than we realize. Sometimes, we may choose to recreate the past; other times we may wish to create a new future.
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