@Nially_Bob: Personally, I find comments that play up or admit to the role of Devil’s Advocate extraordinarily tiresome.
It changes, assists and helps nothing save perhaps the occasional bit of piece of mind or closure to a question that stemmed from pure curiosity.
I need not honor my past, I am satisfied with knowing generally where I came from and what series of events led to my creation. I’d love to know more, but I’m happy with what I know.
Even if I did get more detailed than the knowledge I have now, it ain’t gonna be a fluffy pretty story. Family lore goes back to Austria and Germany, Nazis, a Pope who liked to kill people he had sex with in the Vatican, the Borgias, and Charlemagne.
Sure, it sounds exciting and I’m interested from a historical standpoint – who woulda thunk all of them woulda bumped uglies at some point to make me? So, I’m curious. How did all of those bits and pieces come together? Is all of it true? Or as some great-great-great-great-grand uncle having a bout of low self-esteem and made some stuff up to make himself seem important?
I don’t care if you don’t ‘honor’ your traditions and customs – whatever that means. I do care that you know who those things came from and why you exist. I always wonder, if you don’t care where you came from, how can you possibly care about your future? You don’t remember anyone, why should anyone remember you?