Woohoo blog posts!
I've never done anything like this so bear with me. This is so fun though. I’m really excited to take over this role, so thank you Chi Omega Zeta Zeta for the opportunity!
I’ve had the Chi O symphony on my heart ever since recruitment in the fall. There is a sweet moment one night where a few sophomores stand and recite their given line of the our symphony. Until this moment, I had always viewed our symphony as another thing to memorize; however, as I saw members of my very own pledge class, the people I have grown to know and love stand up to represent the varying lines, I began to truly understand and carry the significance of its weight. I find myself relying on definitions to truly feel the density of words, even when it feels like I know the word so familiarly. So more for my own sake, let’s break this down. The definition of a symphony is an elaborate musical composition. Another definition of a symphony is something regarded, typically favorably, as a composition of different elements. A composition is defined as the way in which a whole or a mixture is made up.
Every single line of our symphony eloquently describes both what each of us strive to become, but also celebrates those who actively achieve the description. Each line is melodic and lovely. Oh, but the ending line. It reads: “to have her welfare ever at heart that she may be a symphony of high purpose and helpfulness in which there is no discordant note.”
I feel as if there is this natural emphasis within Zeta Zeta on “to have her welfare ever at heart.” There is an expectation, but also a desire, to hold each other well. Whether one’s welfare means her happiness, friendship, story, security, vulnerability, community, or any other thing that constitutes a person, we promise and declare to hold it well. To hold the things that make her her ever at heart.
Why do we promise to hold her welfare ever at heart? The next part of this line answers just that. Chi Omega holds our sisters so “that she may be a symphony… in which there is no discordant note.” We do this for the very purpose that the other may be the most harmonious version of herself.
This is profoundly beautiful when you consider the definition of a symphony and our chapter. The composition of our symphony is an array of descriptive lines which act as components of a whole, unified work of music. We, those in Chi Omega, are these lines. In the most individual sense as well as a whole. We desire to embody these descriptions so that in our very being we may be a symphony as well as our chapter and national fraternity.
So what the symphony means to me is rest in Chi Omega. I can rest in this promise. I can rest in the knowledge that my sisters will hold me well. I can rest in the fact that I am viewed as an individual note which helps to make up the whole, euphonic symphony.
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