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slumberI was not able to update my journal in days because I was out till 12 last Friday and Saturday, in different functions, but something happened last Friday that I just really want to put in here, because it annoyed me a bit.
We're part of an organization, and me and a couple of others are sort of the new ones--the babies, so to speak. (We're really relatively young compared to their 40-something ages.) The org has not had members in years, actually, and it is in the process of reviving itself.
Anyway, last Friday there was a general meeting to sort out re-establishment issues, like a separate organization, funding, election of the board, etc, etc. We, the newly inducted ones, were made to participate as well. Now, we were also supposed to vote on the issue, but as it was being dicussed, plenty of people started raising questions and a sort of debate was going on.
One of us new members, my friend, wanted to raise a point. He was thinking that the debate was veering away from the issue and perhaps the whole thing should be refocused, or something. Unfortunately, someone moved to vote already before he was put on the floor, and another seconded the motion. (They did not see him.) The person handling the whole thing saw him, but as there was a move to vote, allowed for the vote to happen.
We were supposed to get our votes in, but we were made to count the votes and none of us voted ourselves. The resolution was passed. After the whole thing, my friend (henceforth called Harry), called us new members out for a meeting of sorts, where he told us his complaints about the whole process, and how the older members are using the votes as a means to cater to their own interests. (This I didn't understand, because nothing was wrong with the proposal, and even Harry was supposed to vote for it. He was just disgusted that it seemed that all the older members cared about was how the proposal would work for their own benefit.)
Me and Harry, we were new members, but the ones he talked to were even newer and were easily swayed by what he was saying. I felt like I was suddenly trapped in a very very bad Scooby Doo episode, or even a Young Nancy Drew mystery, or a Famous Five or a Secret Seven novel. The Kids Against The Older Ones. The whole underdog shebang. They were complaining about how they were made to work all night (Because we were younger and it is only polite to work instead of making the older ones do it), how they were brushed aside during the discussion (Personally I wanted the debate over with, and if I could, I'd have moved to start voting already too), and how we weren't given a chance to vote (except that we were, we just didn't and they didn't count their votes in).
All in all, it was a Slytherin's Gryffindor nightmare.
Harry was not contented in rallying up the underdogs. Oh no. He said he wanted the organization good once it is handed over to us, and it will be in the future, so we ought to Do Something. He proposed we ask for our membership fees back, because the fee was for the vote as well. The impressionable kids sort of agreed.
That was where I had to draw the line. Absolutely not. They were being presumptuous! I told them I didn't feel comfortable and would rather not have myself involved. (Who cares if I disappoint the high-and-mighty Harry whose attention I wanted to keep because it made me feel good? I don't care if I don't impress him and hold his attention anymore; there are more practical men out there.) I felt, for the most part, that they were stirring up trouble,and that there *is* a possibility thigns were just a misunderstanding. (He was already beginning his speech with the words "We are disgusted..")
Well, he said he'd ask for an explanation instead. I said fine, but I had to go. As I was leaving the place, I heard him say something like "On behalf of us new members, we wuld like to say that we are disgusted..."
Why God why?
Fine. Perhaps, if things were really as twisted as he deemed them to be, can he please try to be a little bit subtler? I don't like out-and-out opposition. It just isn't my style, and there's no strategy in it at all. Besides, it has the possibility of making one look stupid, and making one vulnerable, and especially when one is powerless, making one weak.
AND. The nobility is overrated. Really, it is. It was so melodramatic and I really could do without the idealism. It isn't that I'm cynical. It's just that it rubbed me the wrong way. Anyway, I am still overrated about the whole affair, and I may possibly have ruined our relationship a bit. I don't care, really. Gryffindor nobility like that will be the end of me.
Stupid stupid Gryffindors.
We're part of an organization, and me and a couple of others are sort of the new ones--the babies, so to speak. (We're really relatively young compared to their 40-something ages.) The org has not had members in years, actually, and it is in the process of reviving itself.
Anyway, last Friday there was a general meeting to sort out re-establishment issues, like a separate organization, funding, election of the board, etc, etc. We, the newly inducted ones, were made to participate as well. Now, we were also supposed to vote on the issue, but as it was being dicussed, plenty of people started raising questions and a sort of debate was going on.
One of us new members, my friend, wanted to raise a point. He was thinking that the debate was veering away from the issue and perhaps the whole thing should be refocused, or something. Unfortunately, someone moved to vote already before he was put on the floor, and another seconded the motion. (They did not see him.) The person handling the whole thing saw him, but as there was a move to vote, allowed for the vote to happen.
We were supposed to get our votes in, but we were made to count the votes and none of us voted ourselves. The resolution was passed. After the whole thing, my friend (henceforth called Harry), called us new members out for a meeting of sorts, where he told us his complaints about the whole process, and how the older members are using the votes as a means to cater to their own interests. (This I didn't understand, because nothing was wrong with the proposal, and even Harry was supposed to vote for it. He was just disgusted that it seemed that all the older members cared about was how the proposal would work for their own benefit.)
Me and Harry, we were new members, but the ones he talked to were even newer and were easily swayed by what he was saying. I felt like I was suddenly trapped in a very very bad Scooby Doo episode, or even a Young Nancy Drew mystery, or a Famous Five or a Secret Seven novel. The Kids Against The Older Ones. The whole underdog shebang. They were complaining about how they were made to work all night (Because we were younger and it is only polite to work instead of making the older ones do it), how they were brushed aside during the discussion (Personally I wanted the debate over with, and if I could, I'd have moved to start voting already too), and how we weren't given a chance to vote (except that we were, we just didn't and they didn't count their votes in).
All in all, it was a Slytherin's Gryffindor nightmare.
Harry was not contented in rallying up the underdogs. Oh no. He said he wanted the organization good once it is handed over to us, and it will be in the future, so we ought to Do Something. He proposed we ask for our membership fees back, because the fee was for the vote as well. The impressionable kids sort of agreed.
That was where I had to draw the line. Absolutely not. They were being presumptuous! I told them I didn't feel comfortable and would rather not have myself involved. (Who cares if I disappoint the high-and-mighty Harry whose attention I wanted to keep because it made me feel good? I don't care if I don't impress him and hold his attention anymore; there are more practical men out there.) I felt, for the most part, that they were stirring up trouble,and that there *is* a possibility thigns were just a misunderstanding. (He was already beginning his speech with the words "We are disgusted..")
Well, he said he'd ask for an explanation instead. I said fine, but I had to go. As I was leaving the place, I heard him say something like "On behalf of us new members, we wuld like to say that we are disgusted..."
Why God why?
Fine. Perhaps, if things were really as twisted as he deemed them to be, can he please try to be a little bit subtler? I don't like out-and-out opposition. It just isn't my style, and there's no strategy in it at all. Besides, it has the possibility of making one look stupid, and making one vulnerable, and especially when one is powerless, making one weak.
AND. The nobility is overrated. Really, it is. It was so melodramatic and I really could do without the idealism. It isn't that I'm cynical. It's just that it rubbed me the wrong way. Anyway, I am still overrated about the whole affair, and I may possibly have ruined our relationship a bit. I don't care, really. Gryffindor nobility like that will be the end of me.
Stupid stupid Gryffindors.
