Since joining Delta Zeta a year ago, I have faced a barrage of questions. Do I like it? I do. Do I go out whenever I feel like it? No, I like Parks and Recreation, a cup of tea, and my crochet needles. Am I paying for my friends? Absolutely not.
Since coming to college, I’d always been a bit uncertain about who I am and who I want to be, what my greatest passions are and where they can take me, and how I can continue to carry on when life gets overwhelming. Despite these fears, I’d pushed forward, knowing that there is a bright future ahead as long as I don’t stop working for it. However, there comes a point when a person just cannot do it alone. I had never envisioned myself as a sorority girl. For one thing, I don’t love the color pink, but I also don’t like pumpkin spice lattes. Pushing those seemingly essential qualities aside, I underwent informal recruitment and found myself in the midst of a lively community that I never could have imagined.
I could go on for days about the friends that I have discovered since joining a sorority. I never could have guessed how many passionate women there are here, never could I have seen myself becoming one of them. Until I did. And I have never looked back.
Recently, I had a friend tell me that, as much as they tease me, they thought that joining Delta Zeta was the best choice for me. I couldn’t quite put it into words why they were perfectly right; I can now.
Delta Zeta took all of my passions, whether it be art, dancing, serving others, even studying, and instead of separating them all apart into their own neat tupperware containers of life and keeping them contained, it allowed them to merge together. I was not scared to admit that I love school or that pickles are one of my favorite foods, because they didn’t matter. What mattered was the person that I was. And if loving pickles was essential to my personality, they would have loved it all the same. I grew confident in who I am. I gained perseverance, as anyone going to recruitment workshops can wholeheartedly agree, but I also grew far more patient. I am more outgoing, but I am also not afraid to lay on a couch and watch Disney movies for hours on end. I have grown conscientious of who I am and how I want to live my life. Many of my friends know that I can never make up my mind, but I have grown certain enough of myself to take steps to secure a concrete future.
So when asked if I love my sorority. If asked if joining Delta Zeta was the best choice that I made, solely for myself, in college. I can say yes. It was, it will always be, and I love being a sorority girl.
