It just doesn't make sense, but lots of people go every two weeks.
How many of our society's rituals actually make sense?
I had a professor in college whose pet saying was "Tradition is garbage." And by that he meant that tradition
just for tradition's sake is mindlessly following a ritual. I get the happy hour after payday (within reason, as in if it were me I would stop after two or three beers max), folks are celebrating the fruits of their labor. I don't get many other contrived holidays. President's Day, for example, is the least favorite holiday at our firm. Who wants a day off in February when it is too cold to do anything? Could we please have Good Friday instead??? (Not that I look any paid day off from work in the mouth, but you get my drift). Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, however, are my favorite holidays of the year because my family gets together.
To each their own here, but I would submit that MMMs philosophy of constant optimization dictates you examine everything in your life and ask yourself "Does this make sense?". Often times the answer will be "Hell yeah it does." But I've also found that sometimes it does not. I'll give one personal example. In my 20s I started a tradition of an Easter cookout at my grandparents (and I am agnostic). The real point of it was to get the family together and my grandparents loved family get-togethers. So I would bring the grill and some steaks and it was a grand time. Eventually my grandparents passed one by one and the tradition moved to my home. The kids were older, so Easter Egg hunts stopped, and we often found ourselves watching the final round of The Masters as a family since the two occasions often coincided. Long story short, about eight years ago I changed the tradition. Now we celebrate
The Masters instead of
Easter. Same family get-together, same fun, slightly modified to meet our tastes.