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Now Brandon, I would consider what you just said to be a personal insult. If you want to start talking about sacrifices for one's chapter, you WILL lose to me.
Look at what you said: I started MY chapter. It was MY brainchild.
You know what your problem is? I'll tell you.
"I fought for that BADGE, and I'll be damned if I'll *ever* look at it as "just a hunk of metal." That BADGE shows the person standing next to me that I *am*"
I don't need a badge as a prize to fight for. I don't need a badge to let other people know I am a Lambda Chi Alpha. I don't need a badge as a physical reminder of what I am. I don't need a badge to have others ask me about it. I don't need a badge to spread the good word. I don't need a badge to show I am proud of what I have done.
Why?
Because I LIVE being a Lambda Chi Alpha. People know it by my ACTIONS, and not some cheap piece of metal I wear. Obviously you don't act like a Lambda Chi, or you wouldn't need that badge to remind everyone.
You can have your badge. You can have my badge. You can have 100 badges. You can have a badge worth $10,000 or $100,000.
It doesn't matter. Unlike you, I don't measure being
a Lambda Chi by a badge. Unlike you, I put value into the important aspects of being a brother. Unlike you, I'm there for my brothers, and not off in my room polishing my BADGE.
I've been to 3 funerals in the last 6 months for family members of brothers I barely know. Driven 3-4 hours for the wake after work. Why? Because I would rather show my love for my brothers by my actions. That is what really matters.
It's sad really. You only wanted to be a Lambda Chi to wear the letters? To wear a badge? You can take my badge, because obviously you don't know what it means. You don't know what it is to be a brother.
Were you even awake for ritual? Did you even understand it? I don't care about some cheap plastic badge that there are 1'000's of.
Funny thing. You say the BADGE shows the person next to you that you are a Lambda Chi. I don't need a badge to show people I am a Lambda Chi.
I LIVE Lambda Chi Alpha.
You just WEAR Lambda Chi Alpha.
You can take my hunk of metal right now, and in your eyes I may not deserve it.
But if I could, I would take away your brotherhood and association. In my eyes, you don't deserve it...
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