Translated…
Recalling how before we wed, I was feeling unstable, although I’d held the expectations for the future of me, being married, but, I’m also worried about the challenges that will be coming my way. With the fast approaching wedding date, I’d become even more anxious, as I’d planned my own wedding, my moods went up and down, like a rollercoaster, I didn’t have the joys and the bliss of the regular brides-to-be at all; and, the atmosphere is also very tense at home, I’d even gotten into my head, that my family didn’t care about this major event that’s about to happen in my life at all.
Until the day before the wedding, my mother handed me a pearl necklace, “This, was a wedding present from your maternal grandmother to me, now, I’m giving it to you, so you can wear it to get married tomorrow; and, if in the future, your own daughter is to be wed, you must put it around her neck too.” At that moment, I’d finally realized, that the wedding ceremonies are just that, the important thing is the one standing next to you on the altar, and, the families and loved ones’ blessings.
One day in the future, I shall, take this same necklace, tell my daughter, “this pearl necklace, your grandmother put around my neck when I got wed, and now, I’m passing it to you, and, when your own daughter marries in the future, you must also, put it on her, because love is heritage, responsibility, and, tolerance.”
This pearl necklace carried the love and the blessings from the mothers to their daughters.
And so, this, is how something gets turned into tradition, because something meaningful has happened in your lives, and, so, you’d naturally, passed it down, to your own younger generations, and they will in turn, pass it down, to their own younger generations too.
Life, the Obstacle Course 