Some inherited rules survive generations because nobody remembers who created them.

Rules outlive their reasons. A prohibition made sense for one household in one decade under one particular pressure, and then it kept going, passed down as principle long after the original circumstance disappeared. Nobody questions it because nobody can point to who invented it. Authorship is the first thing lost, and once it is gone the rule feels like nature.

Take one family rule you follow without knowing why and try to trace it back. If nobody can say where it came from or what it prevented, that is worth knowing. You are allowed to be the one who lets it end.