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I love this poem!
What Zeta Tau Alpha is…
"Zeta Tau Alpha is not entirely…
a white violet, a national convention, a crested honor ring, a song to Themis, a five pointed crown, a long silver chain or a pin in the shape of a shield.
And it’s not entirely…
An institution, a Creed, a legacy, an obligation or a “Model for Life"
If we must insist that it’s something, Maybe Zeta Tau Alpha is…
Moving in the first time and slowly, learning that all the beautiful people have cellulite and use mouthwash, too. Or maybe it’s just long, tired eternities of stuffing greenery into lattice of drinking coffee and eating junk food during exams when you still can’t remember the Renaissance architects or the bone structure of some creature. Perhaps it’s borrowing a skirt from Jenny and a shirt from Karie and shoes from Trish and passing it all off as your own.
And sometimes…
It’s just sitting and listening in utter helplessness because one of your Zeta sisters is lost and she’s lonely and it seems the whole world just fell into little pieces.
And it’s…
Coming in late one night, and closing the door to tell a special Zeta sister who’s seen you through the hardest year of your life that you’re happy now, and you got accepted to your number one grad school choice.
And Zeta is, I suppose, a kind of evaluation…
You grow up inside those chapter room walls and perhaps you do learn more of the circus we call life than if you had spent your time somewhere else.
You learn that no matter where you came from…
Or who took you there, you’ve still got to find that one small acre that belongs to you, by yourself you learn that the world is made up of people you’re not going to like, and you live with them anyway.
You learn that there’s still a lot left to believe in and a whole lot more to hope for…
You learn that love has never been easy and that it’s a long time coming, but through Zeta Tau Alpha you learn that “Love is the greatest of all things" and it you’re very smart or very lucky you learn that no matter how big or how messy the world becomes what is precious and what is permanent is always the same. And in the very end you come to realize Zeta Tau Alpha is indeed a better way to stumble down the back steps and out the front door of life."
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