FOR SISTERFRIENDS AND GDI....ONLY!

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by Virtuous Woman:
First I would be confused , then I would be mad , and then sad but eventually I would just take it as sign from God that I was about to make the biggest mistake of my life!

How would it have been the "biggest mistake" of your life? Please explain...

I "hear" ya...Sunnydays96!

[PrincessELG]

I would be beyond devistated. I have waited sooo long for my chance that if I couldn't reach my goal I would be very hurt, but as others have said I would move on with my life, Unfortunatley with one dream unfullfilled.

[Virtuous Woman]

Originally posted by AKA2D '91:
How would it have been the "biggest mistake" of your life? Please explain...

I "hear" ya...Sunnydays96!

I pray every day for God to show me whether or not He would like me to be a part of an organization. For something that drastic to happen (the organization not accepting any new members), I would be convinced that I was about to make a BIG mistake. I would believe that God was "saving" me from something that might not have been the best or the "right" choice for me to make.

[PositivelyAKA]

uh well i uh... well soror i mean, shoot i used to be a sisterfriend *gets in time capsule and goes back to the year 1990 when i didn't have no pearls*

ok *dusts off* if this were to happen i would say you know man i really wanted to be a part of that organization, i would hope that they would eventually reopen their doors and hopefully if i was WORTHY ENOUGH i would try to become a member then. shoot i know many folks who for whatever reason couldn't make it at the undergrad level but because it was in their heart they fought to get in at the graduate level. just because God doesn't give you what you want right off, doesn't mean it would have been bad for you to have or a mistake, maybe it is not your time or maybe he is testing you to see if you really wanted it in the first place peace. *jumps back into time capsule punches the year 2001*

[exquizit]

I thought alot about this before I answered....

I really would be shocked, I mean wow....
Then I would try to move on, but you guys I gotta be honest here...When I want something I want it, so it would be kinda hard to just say "Oh I'll just go on with my life"

This is something that I've been eating , sleeping , and dreaming for some time now..Maybe I'd work harder and try to get them to except ONE MORE.

Maybe I'd just have to be a woman about it and except what the organization has said, but, I would forever have that on my mind because I never even got a chance to see if I'd even come close to making it

You know me you guys.....Giving it to you straight with no chaser! I had to be honest here!

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by exquizit:
You know me you guys.....Giving it to you straight with no chaser! I had to be honest here!

And, that's what I am looking for!

[darling1]

Ok,

you want honesty?? here it is, after the initial shock, anger and sadness, i MAY look at another organization because i have always believed that bglo's all provide a service to the community/the greater good but just in different ways or i may simply move on and hope that the organization will lift the ban in the near future.

[cinnamongirl]

Quite honestly....I'd be shocked , upset , sad , and disappointed . If the org. closed their doors, there's no way that I could just change my mind at the snap of a finger because this is something that I've wanted for SO LONG! I'd do what ever I could do to help that organization in whatever way I could. I know that there's no other org. for me and it's where my heart and love is so I'd just hope that one day they'd reopen their doors.

[TempleAlum1993]

Life goes on.....I believe that everything happens for a purpose, so I would have to take it in stride. If it is meant to be; it will be.

I know this may seem a little blase to some; but one thing I have learned is that if something is meant for you; it will happen....not on your time; but GOD's time.

I can't say that I would be "shocked or upset". I say this because my interest is on the graduate level so I know that intake is not "guaranteed" to happen at any given time or at all for that matter.

While this is something I REALLY want; it is a privledge not a given. I would continue the service I do in my community and hope that before I left this world the policy would change and I would have another opporunity to realize this dream.



[This message has been edited by TempleAlum1993 (edited January 12, 2001).]

[darling1]

sunnydays96, i get the sense that your response was indirectly posed at me. i have been interested for a very long time and i have learned that on the one hand you have to look at seeking membership as a business. if the business has a hiring freeze, i am not going to sit around waiting for the freeze to be over. i would look for something else or stay in my current position. i have talents, assets, goals etc. that i want to reach and i am looking for a 'company' that will allow me to demonstrate them.

as far as the elitist issue, there are women out here that are like that but not me. i am as true as they come. if a questioned was posed to me about my other interests i would more than likely tell them because i don't believe in lying to people. anyone that knows me can vouch for that. if you happen to have anything that you want to ask me personally about my comments you can by all means e-mail me.

[Miss. Mocha]

HEY AKA2D,

What in the world is a GDI?

Don't laugh, but I am acronym challenged.


It took me the longest time to figure out what "LOL" meant. Then people started typing "ROTFLOL", and I was back at square one.

Miss. Mocha

[12dn94dst]

Originally posted by darling1:
sunnydays96, i get the sense that your response was indirectly posed at me. i have been interested for a very long time and i have learned that on the one hand you have to look at seeking membership as a business. if the business has a hiring freeze, i am not going to sit around waiting for the freeze to be over. i would look for something else or stay in my current position. i have talents, assets, goals etc. that i want to reach and i am looking for a 'company' that will allow me to demonstrate them.

True enough AKA and "the others" (as AKA2D'91 so sweetly put it lol ) are businesses but we are SISTERHOODS and EXTENDED FAMILY first. You are (and we were when we didn't have our pearls) not only interested in the work we do, heck there are TONS of public service organizations out there. You're interested in BONDING with the women in the organization. One company does not fit all employees and one Sorority definetly does not fit all women. I mean think about it, don't you think if AKA stopped bringing in new members Delta, Zeta and Sigma would be on the alert for those who jumped ship, as it were? It's a small world out there. There are too many subjective aspects to becoming a member to get cocky just because you look good on paper.

Getting back to the original question. If I'm TRULY INTERESTED in my chosen organization, my only options are to wait until the moratorium is lifted and I am deemed worthy or die a GDI (gosh darn individual).

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Kelli
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
12-Delta Nu-94
MAL, Southern Region
Savannah State University c/o 1997

[This message has been edited by 12dn94dst (edited January 12, 2001).]

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by 12dn94dst:
die a GDI (gosh darn indivitual).

he he he! she said gosh darn individual....

[PrincessELG]

I could not even fathom pursuing interest in another organization. If Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. closed its doors, knocking on another organizations doors would not even cross my mind, honestly. I have put to much time and effort into pursuing my interest to just turn around to another. If the doors to Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. were to re-open I would be the first one there ready, willing, and able paperwork in hand. But I thought the question asked was if the organization was to never open its doors again, so I would have to face facts and move on as I previously stated.

[Diarra]

I would be extremely sad, but as lond as
Alpha Kappa Alpha would continue it's activities, I would stay involved in their programs and community services open to the public.