"I want to escape, but I'm going through tradition.
So be thoughtful, start a new tradition with this makeover you've just gone through!
You can go through the normal traditions, but you don't want to get them hyped up.
"The action is fast, and it feels good to be doing what all my family has been doing, my ancestors," said Shane's cousin Maureen McNulty, 9. "It makes me feel like I'm going through the tradition.
We cannot, however, simply "go through the motions" of following custom, tradition, and ritual in our interactions, nor should we fulfill our obligations mainly because we have been made to feel obliged to fulfill them, else we will not continue to develop our humanity.
The parents who followed tradition did not go through an explicit decision-making process.
"I didn't want my son to go through life without experiencing the same traditions," she said.
"It's become almost a tradition, a culture — every year we go through this prevention," Ms. Facia Garrido said.
In class, we have gone through various religious traditions, various nonreligious philosophical traditions, having students read and find out what is the good life.
