Ritual is such a subjective term. What we might call a “ritual” might be a way of life for a person for the longest time. For example, if you are a Buddhist you might follow a particular way of life. Many people use a routine as a way of life, but they may not be as formal or structured as you might think.
The example I’m going to use here is a ritual that many people engage in. When I was in the first grade, it was a ritual that we would do every day. Not all of us did it, but I remember every single one of them. Every time we did it, it was the same thing. We would all turn to face the same direction and raise our arms in the same position. Then we would all have to say a few words in a specific order.
Some rituals are a bit more formal. When you do an eating ritual, you say how to eat, where to eat, what to eat, and how to wash your hands. That’s different than a ritual that you do every day, like it’s just something you have to repeat every day.
A ritual is a ritual. Every day, every month, every year, it is the same thing. We’ve all done it. We all have the same ritual. So how do we create it? It can come down to one simple thing: the language we use. Every time we do a ritual, we must speak in the same way. In a ritual, the language we use is the language we use on a daily basis. The one that will create that ritual.
We do a lot of rituals. We use the same language on a daily basis. We have the same language, we speak in the same way. Thats how we create ritual. In a very basic sense, we call it a ritual because the way we create it is the way we create it. We say, “Hey, I got this. I am going to do this” and we do it. The ritual is the way we create it.
In modern society, rituals are very common. They’re pretty much the norm, if not the default. They all have one thing in common, they’re ritual. They are the way we create the rituals. Ritual is the language we use in our everyday lives. It’s the language we use to create the rituals.
Rituals are the kind of things we do all the time. Theyre done to a specific set of circumstances, and we do it because we have something to say, or because we want to do it. Rituals are the way we do things, theyre the way we make sense of them, theyre the way we make sense of our lives. Theyre the way we organize our lives.
I find all of this to be rather fascinating, but there’s a problem. We don’t know how to actually create rituals, yet. We don’t even know how to create rituals for a specific set of circumstances, the same way we don’t know how to create rituals for a specific set of circumstances for a certain ritual.
Rituals are created in a number of ways. There are rituals we do to ourselves, to the world, to the gods, to the ancestors. There are rituals we do to others. Theres rituals we do to each other, things we do to ourselves, and things we do to others. I mean, there are definitely rituals we do with each other. But theres also rituals we do to ourselves, rituals we do to the people we love.
Rituals are meant to be passed down from generation to generation. If a ritual we do with someone is broken by a person who doesn’t really understand the ritual then that person is supposed to be punished. The punishment can be physical (i.e. death), mental (i.e. insanity), or emotional (i.e. depression).