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When family traditions lose their sacred purpose

Our family does this annual camping trip that started as a way to disconnect and be together but now everyone brings devices and we spend half the time managing the same stuff we do at home. My kids say they still want to go but I watch them scrolling by the campfire and wonder if we're just performing togetherness.

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Ritual can become hollow when form persists but meaning has quietly departed.

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