On Disrespecting Others

Today I kinda lost interest in serving my org.

First, the president under which I will be serving thinks that the committee I previously headed was "madali lang" which is just one of the stupidest things ever. Well, it was easy for him to say that because the person he asked is the Office of Student Affairs lady. It is like asking a professional ballerina if ballet were easy. When I heard about it, I felt tears welling up in my eyes. The first thing that came to my mind when I heard about it is that our committee is basically useless. The tasks it entails are "madali lang" that anyine can do it. It made me feel like our committee was useless and it made me hate him as a leader. It made me think that he does not see the value of what we are doing. However, he kinda has a point for saying so. Preparing for an org's reaccreditation was easy on our committee this year especially since we were not the ones who prepared it. I did not even realize that accreditation was going on. It came on as an insult to me that I got the easiest part for the Year End Survey report when I am suposed to be one of the people who handles it.

Second reason why I lost interest serving my org is realted to the upcoming Sanggu Elections. A lot of my orgmates just recently graduated from ASLA and so they were all voting for and are in support of the independent candidate who is the president of ASLA. Earlier today they were campaigning for their candidate and it was nothing to me since it was campaign period. But then what really pissed me is when they told me to vote for their candidate and I said I was voting for this other candidate. And the former president of our org said "iboboto mo yung bading na yun?" And I said I like him and he said something like me liking my candidate just because I have a crush on him. And i said I know him and turned away. Is that all he can say about my candidate? That my candidate is gay? He does not even know if that is true! He was so rude and disrespectful. I mean, come on, I also have something against their candidate. Something petty that does not even form a sound basis for voting against him. I think their candidate is mayabang. I have not spoken to him like really well but he comes off to me as mayabang. But I do not campaign against just because I he has a certain aura of being mayabang. I keep my thoughts to myself or to anyone willing to speak to me about it. I just found it so rude and disrespectful. How different are we to the current political situation of the country where politicians and politician wannabes are bashing each other and airing out each other's dirty laundry?

The Sanggu right now seriously needs to reform and this is how we prepared the Sanggu in its reform? I am not bashing their candidate. I have heard nice things about him. But since I am not doing so, I just hope that they do not bash my candidate. Campaign all you want and flood my wmail all you want with your candidate's platform. But please do not play dirty. I know that I dont.

On a semi lighter note, I miss the president of my org when I was in freshman year. He was all that our org stood for. He was the leader that we needed. He was the example we needed. After his term, things seemed to me as chaotic. The spirituality our org brings is probably still the same, a bit tamer but still has not lost focus. But the way the org is structured, the was the functional aspect of the org is done seemed to me as chaotic. I just wish someone like him would step up the leadership trail. I hope that someone willing to give up his/her vices and wrong habits for the integrity of the org rises up again.