Monday, December 03, 2007
Am spending the entire day at Darling's house, doing house-sitting coz it's undergoing renovations. Am bored to death......but it's coz I'm bored that I start thinking about camp and all that we've gone through these 5 days. Spent the better part before the camp worrying about how the YGZ of this year would fare. After all, they were all in new roles. Roles that they had never undertaken before, programs that meant a whole new world to them. It was a new school, a new format of doing a lot of programs. I was worried, Angela and Nigel were worried, Darling was also worried. We didn't know if our presence made the YGZ more stressed out. After all, we are always the ones scolding them. I'm only glad that we managed to help them through, and in the process, bonded with them on an even closer level, minimising the huge gap that once lay between us. Some of them have made me very proud. Pple like Monica who actually did far more than what was being asked of her, for hanging on no matter how tired she was, for giving 200% of passion and enthusiasm, for making us feel even more driven and to feel that it is all worthwhile; pple like Chris, who undertook something that we knew he would never take up. For maturing into a deeper and more well-balanced person, for growing up and taking on responsibilities of his own accord, and not giving up even though he had no expertise or experience in the group he was assigned to. It's in the training of such people, of watching them grow up that makes us feel that everything is worth it. After all, they are the next generation. They will be our next era....and they are the ones who give us hope. Of course, there are also the campers who mature and grow up..... Who show that they have truly gained something spectacular in the 5 days. Gained something that will make them a different person, something that will change their lives forever. Watching them, I can't help but feel proud of them.Darling and me spent the better part of the morning discussing our YGZ for the 2 camps of next year. We are going to make things different. It is time to train proteges, time to make them much more than what they ever believed that could ever have become...time to make them realize their own potential and what they can truly achieve. It is time to make the new generation understand why Legion means this much to us. Nigel has helped them form the bonds this year....it is now up to us to strengthen these bonds, and to make them all indispensable to one another....Legion is a family. It is something that no one else outside of this circle can understand. We always say that the friends we find here are those we can find nowhere else, and it is true. No one understands why. And it is funny how despite these bonds, there are still people leaving us due to lousy excuses. It is time for us to discover the real reason behind this, to give ourselves and those after us a reason to stay on in Legion for life. It is time for us to inject new life into the place that is truly our Sanctuary. Certain things have happened in the span of last night and now that made me very sad, for it is with truth that people who are out of our circle in Legion will never understand the bonds we have. And it is because of this lack of understanding that leads to many many misunderstandings. It is with this that I can say that Darling and myself are truly very lucky to have found someone who shares this special bond. And it is also why we say that Legion will be our life, and that Legion will flow in our blood, for it is through Legion that we were brought together, and it is for Legion that we will fight for to continue to build these bonds of steel in the younger ones.....We may have left once, but we realized that Legion is what makes us who we are. Legion is the place that we want every single Legionary to call Home. These people are my family. These people are my friends. These people are the ones who have stuck it out with me through thick and thin. These people are my sanctuary.
2:45 PM
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