Letters

[OUlioness01]

Originally posted by AXPGoBot
I'm sorry, but I can't see how much pride you can have in something that's handed to you over a weekend. There's definitely a limit to the amount of respect you can feel when you do things like that.

My letters and my Ritual mean more than that.

how can i have pride for my GLO if allowed to wear letters before i was initiated?
easy. i was proud to be asked to belong to an organization with such a rich heritage. i was proud to belong to an organization with women who truly accepted each other for what they were. i was proud to wear my letters because i wanted to show my association with a wonderful group of women on my campus. i don't know if you can have much more pride than that. learning ritual made my have a deeper pride. i couldn't possibly have had more pride in Phi Mu than what i had already had before i was initiated. My letters did and still do mean a lot to me and i'm proud that i was able to wear them. i may have been permitted to wear my letters before initiation, but that doesn't mean my love and respect for the national organization that is Phi Mu is any less.

*edited to add*
I was wondering a little bit about this whole new members are not your bother/sister... does that mean that your big/little isn't your big sister/brouther or little sister/brother until initation? it's just seems hypocritical to me. a bid is an invitation to be a brother or a sister. it's kinda like giving birth and a bid is like conception. from the moment your mother conceived you had a little borther or sister. ritual is kinda like birth in that they are fully in the world, but that isn't the moment they became your sibling.