V-day should be everyday

This passed Sunday was valentines day, the day of love. All of my friends who did not have a significant other to share his fake holiday with boycotted against it, with rage and hate. I fortunately on the other hand had a valentine this year, after the disaster of a stood up date last year. Though I was on the other side this year I did not parade around, rubbing it in other faces, nor did I feel like I was so lucky. The one thing I did feel was love, and not just from or for my boyfriend, but pure happiness and love.

It was a beautiful day out on Sunday and as I drove into Brooklyn I had my windows down and my sun roof open and I felt the sun heat beating on my head, I had music on of one of my favorite Cd's, and I just felt alive! Just everything about that day I felt like this feeling was just perfect. I was on the way home to see my parents because they came home from vacation and I missed them terrible, and that's love. I thought of all my friends and how happy they make me and the good times we share,that's love. I thought of my grandfather who passed away and from the blue sky, and the hot sun on me, I felt his love all around me.

It doesn't take a valentine to make you feel appreciated but it is the people around you that truly care and love you everyday. I try and let people in my life know how much I care all the time, not just this day of love.

I am not a real religious person but in my theology class, one of the things my professor said during a lecture was one way we can prove there is a God is through love and beauty. Everything about Sunday just made me think about that, I stood outside my house and just closed my eyes and let the sun shine on me and I felt love from everywhere and everyone. I feel that on your worst days if you feel blue, you should just go outside and just take in the beauty around us and just think of how fortunate we are, and not just one day a year.

Its every wo-man for themseleves

A year ago I walked the halls of Meet the Greeks, and bounced between room to room just trying to get a feel of what sororities were all about. With nine sororities, the only thing in common is the fact they are all human-females.(Well maybe more so then others lol). To me the act of trying to get girls to pledge was kind of like being in a brothel, and last night was the first night of Round Robin. I am on the other side trying to suck up innocent freshman girls to pledge,of course my opinion, the best sorority..mine! Back to my brothel reference my exact quote last night was " I feel like whoring myself". It is hard to try to prove to groups of girls why we are so much better then the next when all you get in 15 minutes to talk. Another hard thing about it is when other sororities bad mouth you. I just don't understand people. This is not a life or death situation to try get as many girls as possible,and to go so low to talk "smack" is just pathetic. I will not name names but I just pity the girls who said it because these girls are just the ghost of sororities past and formed one over controlling,manipulative group of hormonal,emotional girls.

Though it is hard to recruit girls, when I was looking to pledge it was an easy decision when I found where I was meant to be. I heard it said that sororities are a waste of time, but I could not disagree more, because I made the best memories that will last a lifetime. I also heard that sorority girls are selfish, sloppy, and just pure evil but this is another thing that is just not true, because I never see more affection and received more support from people then my sisters. We build up the pieces of each other lives that have been knocked. I love my sorority,hence why I pledged, and really hence why I didn't pledge that other mean sorority (now I am just doing that to be annoying). I do not discriminate against other sororities,because like me, those girls found where they belong.I am sure they love each other ,the way I love my sisters.

I am just looking forward to the end of this very stressful recruitment period!