I think it is perfectly in order for people to shun their traditions
My community has many family traditions. I know very little about any because I have never been involved with any. I left home when still young and joined school far from home.
Am not a social person, spends most of time alone and won’t attend social functions. All that I care about is philosophy I have read in books, science and religion.
I have not believed on tradition because I usually use what is working now, not what is usually done.
Among the areas of society where tradition is strictly followed is in marriage and relationships. I have not followed those traditions practices. Everyone in my community who is my age is married with their youngest kid at least in grade 5. Am still dating and enjoying it.
In my community people believe you should marry at 20s so that you can raise children when young. I believe that you should marry when at 40s and so I have some more years before I settle down. Life is too short to entangle yourself with marriage when still under 30.
I believe people should concentrate more on self discovery before they engage in relationships.
When in my community, marriage is given very high regard, I have personal philosophy that I postulates that, self discovery should precede marriage. Never marry before you discover your purpose.
Where marriage and relationships is a beautiful thing, I don’t think people should marry before they discover who they were meant to be by the creator. It will make your relationship even more meaningful.
My nuclear family has not meaningful tradition because as an influencial member of the family, I have not given much attention to traditions, so my family have adopted my philosophy of four pillars of life: Beauty, Justices, love and pursuit of purpose.
So my siblings loves and supports each other very much. Am encouraged by their unity. I like it because each one of them want to pursue their purpose to it’s logical conclusion. We look for justice and mercy in every matter of our family. And we want to create a beautiful life for everyone. We strive to do that and that is what we live for. That is our tradition which will live in all our generations. All other traditions we will follow NOT if they will not subscribe to our philosophy.