A family tradition
Tradition brings people together. A tradition, each time when you do it, you’re reminded of all the previous (hopefully happy) experiences you had doing the same thing. They are so important for families. Family traditions pass to the generations and tell the history of our family. They provide face to face interactions and help family members to get to know and trust each other, hence strengthening the family bond.
To speak about my family tradition, we all have our own version of the walk to the beach on 'Chollangi Amavasya' (Chollangi is a holy place, where seven streams of Godavari merges with the sea, The Bay of Bengal.) in Pushya masam (a Telugu month) to take the bath in the holy Godavari river and worship Ganga (goddess of water). Chollangi amavasya is known as Mauni amavasya and Darsh amavasya in other regions of India. (They do Kumbamela at prayaga sangam, an auspicious place to perform Punya snan on Mauni amavasya). Since this is the last amavasya in the year before the arrival of Maha shivratri (a hindu festival to worship lord Shiva).
Most of the times it's fun to go to beach and enjoy the pilgrimage. But with parents and grand parents, it's hard to have fun as they don't let us go out of their sight.
But holiday traditions with friends and cousins make us to come close. When my cousins visit us for summer vacation, we all go to our farms near the beach and help my grandparents to separate the cashew nuts from their fruit and collect the mangoes under the trees. While doing this we hide some cashew nuts to buy Popsicles. My grandma gave us more nuts without my grandpa knowing.We enjoyed the popsicles, running down to the beach.
This time when we go India, we want to go to the beach with my kids.
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