Excellent point, PnguinTrax. I don't know how this will sound, but I hope it is acceptable (since I'm still a neo at all this). Sometimes you reach a point in greekdom where everything isn't always a bowl of cherries. But whenever I start to feel that way, I reflect back on the ritual and how beautiful it was (and is). I develop that warm sense of why I joined my sorority in the first place. Something about going through that process intensifies just the journey of getting there. When I am upset about something or someone, sometimes I can just THINK about the ritual and I will become very emotional. There are so many reasons why I joined my sorority, but if even for none other reason than the ritual itself, I am convinced that Alpha Kappa Alpha is the most beautiful sorority anyone could ever join. I'm not putting down anyone else's organization, by the way. I'm simply conveying my love for my own. And knowing that I don't have to try to DESCRIBE this feeling to someone else, and simply be content in knowing that my sorors have experienced it too, gives me a great deal of comfort. That's one of the reason it serves as such a mechanism for binding. One can only EXPERIENCE it.
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No weapon formed against me shall prosper, for I am a child of the Most High God, Who sits upon the Throne of Grace, and rules all Heaven and Earth.
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