For what reason to live? Bashny.Net

Imagine you have a dying grandmother, owner of a vast fortune. And you are the only heir. Presented? Behind the funeral, tears, speeches, memorial service. You run to the notary to be able to quickly become a millionaire, live on interest and work. And the notary to you and says: "Legacy?! What legacy? You really want to be heir?! Of course, I can arrange it, but it's actually a complete nonsense! Decent, modern people no longer take the right of inheritance is just not right! People have to start their lives from scratch and achieve everything by himself, and what you just taught in school! Can you still get married only with the blessing of the parents?"

The story is really incredible. And the most incredible thing about her is that she actually happens to us every day, every step of the way.

The word "tradition" comes from the Latin "tradere" (to transfer). In antiquity it was used in the most that neither is a literal, material sense. The ancient Romans used "tradere", when it was about transfer each other any object, money or valuables. Later the value of this concept began to expand, and we are talking about things animate (to give his daughter in marriage), and then on the more abstract notions, crafts, rituals, laws, life skills.





That is, initially, the tradition — is just a tool to make transactions in public life. Every time we each other give (knowledge to children, the daughter in marriage) or provide (trust partners, service friends), we all become users of the very expensive and totally a free service which provides tradition. This is the most loyal and reliable notary. Law you can get around, time-honored customs — ever. In traditional society, you're in the best case would be after this pariah, at worst a corpse.

But even in modern society — the closer despised traditional values to the desired values of the material, the less space freedom and freethinking. An open marriage? Yes please! But if he does completely fall apart, a real man has to leave home in one cap, otherwise what figure he is the man! Taking care of children? Children are, of course, sacred, but the life of one, it is necessary to do everything, but, when we become very old and infirm, then let everyone around us jump, because old age, damn, must be respected. Honor your father and mother? Yes, their honor, if they are so behind the times, all the time require some kind of stupid? But it was to quarrel with them, of course, also not worth it because they can and to rewrite legacy in favor of the nieces from Saransk. Henry Ford was certainly right when he said that the best start-up capital for a young man is poverty, we, in the end, not live in America!

I respect the advocates of non-traditional values. But only if they really are those. If they are strong to the end. If in the list of traditional values that they refuse to be inherited from previous generations includes not only premarital chastity and other nonsense, but money — ordinary and real. No, but really!

If you're so advanced and forward — give up not only from the old ways, but from my grandmother's legacy. Give it to some Fund for the development of tomorrow against the day before yesterday. Or just dump it in the state Treasury.

After all, if you think progressive thought, the legacy is absolutely wild, archaic, outdated form of relationship. For some such moral right you should get what is earned. What you have related to your mother's apartment, dad's car or grandma's cottage? You helped them to live happily ever after? Yes, you just interfered! The state and society, it at least created the economic conditions that ensure the safety, you and your relatives only the nerves patted. Well, well, well — you were a loving son and grandson, you well together all these years. Well, what of it? In the sphere of sexual relations, for example, this argument no longer works. "Honey, we had fun together all these years, but our relationship is exhausted, we were strangers and nothing more to each other should not. What?! You gave me the best years of your life? Well, that's — begins!"

I respect the true advocates of non-traditional values, but I am not worried about the fate of traditional values. Nothing ever happens to them. Humanity never will not abandon them. They are invincible. The reason is simple and, to some extent, are economic in nature. Value of nontraditional too expensive. Young you can still afford them — and that only thanks to loans that generously distributes THEN the Bank makes a mistake now and pay you later.

After forty such expenses already can not afford. After forty it becomes clear that the accumulated centuries of customs and life skills is primarily a convenient and profitable. Convenient and profitable to live a normal life, to be associated the home way, family rituals common to the majority of citizens rules of life. Convenient and advantageous with the whole family to do on Saturdays in the house cleaning — this tradition unites, educates and enables you to save on the cleaning lady. It is convenient and advantageous to arrange for the holidays of homemade performances and posting the festive wall newspaper is a living record of the family that can not buy for any money. Convenient and profitable to relatives or neighbors in the village from time to time to unite and help each other: today, we as a mafia will help the Pope to build a public bath in the spring in ten shovels to dig up the garden of our grandmother, and in a year everything will come to us and help with the move.

The network of traditional values, which entangles any healthy society, is the infrastructure, not to use which is just silly. You can, of course, to breathe perfume, but it is better air. Of course, you can sit at home with a candle or to put yourself on the balcony of a very non-traditional for the urban environment the diesel generator, but it is much wiser to connect to the public power grid. Of course, you can go directly through the snow, or get like a bear through the dense brushwood, but in fact, our ancestors built the country, some roads and even put on them some signs.

The meaning of life is as simple as sunlight. So simple, that youth is much more interesting to live a senseless life darkness the friend of youth. But every year for life it is essential to have some reason. Every year more and more obvious that the meaning of life cannot be found, it can only be noted.
— Grisha, wave our grandmother handle! — mother says five-year-old child, pointing at a second floor window. — There she is, there she is, see?
Seeking and a little alarmed at the child's face suddenly lights up with a smile — we have contact. He vigorously waving the one that seventy years ago, and she waved the handle of his grandmother. A little family ritual. Sending each other tiny valuables. The entry into the inheritance.published

Author: Dmitry Sokolov-Mitrich

 

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