“Every story has an end, but in life every ending is just a new beginning”-Uptown Girls
Favorite Quote of ALL time. It’s so true. When a chapter in your life is over, your life continues with new pages hopefully full of mystery and magic. But since life is not always a fairy tale what comes next in your story may be disappointing and scary. As fall semester wraps up, I am realizing how next semester will look so different for me. I chose to fill my life during college with sorority and Panhellenic involvement. This past week all of that changed. My last Panhellenic council meeting as Chaplain, and my last Alpha Delta Pi meeting as Recruitment Vice President was this week. Next semester I will not hold a leadership position and I honestly do not know what I will do with all my spare time.
(Hopefully devote every minute to finding a big girl job, but that’s another story).
As most people know, I am in love with ADPi’s Creed. I think it is the most beautiful thing ever written. The values and standards addressed in the Creed line up with my own. I think that is why I have really enjoyed holding leadership positions in Greek life at UT. The Christian values of ADPi represent strong women who love the Lord and strive to be Godly women. I think this is why the latest development in Panhellenic is so disappointing. Campus Administration has decided to do away with the Panhellenic Council position of Chaplain. It makes me sad that the issue of being politically correct has more weight than that of what the Panhellenic organizations were founded upon. An international officer came to an ADPi meeting this semester and talked about the history of our chapter. The way she told the story had every woman in the room captivated. The founders of ADPi were women who wanted to make a difference and hold each other to a high standard of morals.
One of the main values that brought these women together was one of the first things to go in today’s culture. As I take a break from packing to go home for Thanksgiving I am thankful for the experiences that have shaped my college years, but I am still sadden by the way times are changing and what was once considered important in Greek life is no longer. Even with the disappointment of the end of the position and my term serving as Chaplain I enjoyed every minute of the past few years, completely consumed by Greek life. But with that being said I look forward to the new beginning that is on the way.
I may be stepping out of the leadership positions I held but the life lessons
I learned along the way will walk with me always.
-SJP
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