The
song Mary Go Round is by Katie musgraves is a song that exposes the wrongness
in southern traditions. "If you
ain't got two kids by 21, You're probably gonna die alone, At least that's what
tradition told you." Young people in the South, girls especially are
expected to grow up as fast as they can and begin a life without ever having a
chance to question what they've been taught and what they've seen in their
lives. We tend to just accept the traditions,
like getting married very young, without even thinking about it, because it's
all we really know, we saw it without parents, and our grandparents before
them.
"It
don't matter if you don't believe, Come Sunday morning you best be there, In
the front row, like you're s'posed to."
Another particularly southern tradition that we are supposed to embrace
without hesitation is to be a devoted Christian. However, the sincerity of going to church
making a person a good Christian can be offset, because in a small town like
ours, we know that other churchgoers can do things that aren't exactly Godlike. A man can be out drunk and cheating on his
wife Friday night, and everyone will be whispering about it as he is helping
gather offering in church Sunday morning.
in this way, going to church becomes something that we simply do, and it
might lose faith in the meaning of being a christian.
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