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before i attended school in San Diego, and was in a fraternity, one of my friends from high school joined a sorority. one night i saw something written on a scrap book in her room, so i asked what it was. she told me it was from her sorority and that she couldn't tell me. not being Greek i didn't really understand that it was part of her ritual, or what a ritual even was. anyway, i asked why not, and she ended up telling me what it meant. when she told me i was like whatever...it didn't have any meaning to me so i could care less.
now that I'm in a fraternity i see the importance of ritual. if i had known i would have never asked...anyway, i never told anyone because i didn't think it was a big deal. now i know that there are girls who hold its meaning dear to their hearts, so i shall never repeat it.
i have a friend at my school who is in a chapter of the same sorority, and we were talking about little things that you can do, say, or write that only people in your organization would know. she showed me (without telling me what it meant) what i had seen on my friends scrap book, and told me that she would never tell anyone what it means because it, and her sisterhood, means so much to her. I didn't tell her that I knew what it meant, and never will.
anyway, that's my story...if you are in a GLO, you don't want to know anyone else's ritual, you understand its importance to initiated members. If you're not in a GLO then its a different story because you cannot understand the importance of ritual.
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