#697; we keep marching on
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
These past three-and-a-half years have been the best thing I could've ever asked/ wished for and I don't know what miracle brought me to Guides or brought all of us together but it's the best thing that has ever happened to me and the one thing that has taught me how to feel so much, how to give my all, and how to just simply love the deepest and easiest way we can.
Today Orchid cried and trembled together but within a minute we were laughing and singing our Patrol cheer and I was so, so amazed at how far we've come - how we can be so comfortable with each other and how we just understand and I'm so proud of my juniors for being so accepting of everything that comes their way. After Striping we huddled in a circle and Orchid has given me the strongest attachment to a Patrol than I'd thought possible. I guess some things really happen for the best reason there is.
After that B11ATCH floated around and every now and then we settled into long, comfortable, tight hugs and every now and then someone would say something and we'll lapse into a nostalgic silence and then we look up and smile and everything just felt so... okay. I thought today would be the day that I break down crying, but none of us ever had to go through that, and it just shows so much.
We're not going to leave Guides crying, because we're not leaving Guides. The saying "once a Guide always a Guide" is much more than a saying - I don't think anything can ever take Guides away from me and that's the thing that brought me through today and that will bring me through everything else that I'll ever face in life.
Guides has been so much more than a CCA to me - I don't think CCAs were designed to give you this much joy or teach you so much but somehow Guides has done all that and more for me and it's given me the best seniors, batchmates and juniors that I could've asked for and at times like that it's so easy to know that Guides has been the greatest blessing that I could've ever received.
B11ATCH - don't worry, I'll never forget you guys. I've said this all already but I've got to say this again: you guys are the reason why I can love Guides to such an extent and why every time there's something I'm not okay with you're the first ones I find. You guys are the one I can talk to so easily even though we're all such different people, you guys are the ones that I can move together in a clump with and somehow we just keep moving around among ourselves and talking to each other and having our little constantly changing pairs and- I know I've said this so many times before but, 1. I don't know what I did to be given 21 happy people and 2. I love you I love you I love you.
I'll never stop being a B11ATCHTo our juniors: Today we leave Guides trusting that you will take on this legacy and make it your own - each batch brings something different to Guides and while I don't know if we've been the best seniors you've had I know we've been the best that we can be (and that's what it means, to be a Guide) and I know that all of you have always been the motivation behind that. Starting today we're no longer officially your seniors, but as we leave I want to say that you guys have taught us as much as I hope you've learnt from us. I guess the one thing I must say is that - B11ATCH would give so much to just be able to attend session all over again because Guides is... it's a privilege, to have what we have. But at the same time it's because of what we have that makes it so much easier to leave. Treasure your time in Guides because it flies by so quickly and don't ever think that when you leave, Guides ends for you, because that will never happen. You're all seniors now - do for your juniors what your seniors have done for you, do Raffles Guides -past, present and future- proud.
We're passing our flame to you <3
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