Rituals and stability...Understanding the importance of rituals.
From the time we are born, most of the things we do, or are taught to do, are rituals. Some rituals are important and necessary like the doctor slapping your bottock to see if you cry. Other rituals like nimbu Mirchi are not.
Most rituals are a pain because they are thrust upon you, without any explanations, or understanding, with just a standing order, because I say so, or because that's how it's done.
The guy, who half naked, fresh out of bath, raises his copper pot towards the sun offering water droplets is following a ritual. He has been perhaps told, that there is a some godly gain, so that he doesn't find the ritual cumbersome.
But unknown to him, the real gain is that it gives him a sense of purpose, a sense of daily acheivement or control in at least one aspect of his life, and the remaining instabilities of a day's work, may shrink, due to the fortification of the stability of the early morning ritual.
The trick is know which ritual serves what purpose. The purpose of the ritual of interaction with family on a daily basis is not to update your people with what's on with you, as much as to keep the feeling of 'family' alive. And it needs to be kept alive because finally man is a social animal, and NEEDS human interactions, other than books, music and movies kind.
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