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| Friday, February 06, 2009 It is Friday evening, I am stuck at home with a sore back and nothing left to watch and there is no way I will touch my coursework with a 10-foot pole. So here I am on blogger and I think I shall write about something that has crept into my thoughts of late: my reflections on BTC 04. Yes, dear readers: here are my five-year-overdue thoughts on the matter. Specifically, one issue has continually been bugging me; festering at the back of my mind. Alas, I shall now lay it to rest. Perhaps we did it in the name of tradition. Perhaps we wanted to bestow upon the club, and hence ourselves, an aura of prestige; a measure of exclusivity. Perhaps we did it in the misguided belief that it would make the "survivors" better off - at least that is how we justified it to others and to ourselves. Or perchance the lamest possible excuse: we did it simply because it was done unto us first. I am of course talking about the dreaded "selections" that are, in actuality, the whole objective of BTC. Five years on, looking back at the event and the first thing that springs to mind is "Judge not, that you be not judged." In sum, the whole BTC is a farcical exercise in judging: peers judging peers, seniors judging juniors... Who's to say that we would pass when judge with our own criteria? Were there even concrete criteria? I'm sure there were, but they were so paper-thin and lightweight that I, for the life of me, cannot even remember the first thing about them. And, most embarassingly, I suspect I was the one who laid out these criteria. My two years in this club have taught me a few things about the dynamics of how we operate. We never leave a single person behind. There was no need to cut anyone on the grounds of fitness. Interpersonal frictions reduce over time; differences resolve themselves through adversity. Why cut someone on the very subjective basis that he or she does not get along well? Experience has also shown me that those not suited for the club eventually leave at their own accord. In that case, why do we even cut at all? So what did we manage to achieve? The square root of f*** all, as the Brits would say. Well, perhaps not - we did manage to bruise a few good egos, and enhance our clubs reputation for elitism. Great job, then. To the juniors that we cut, if you are reading this: I proffer my sincerest belated apologies. May your sense of self-worth not be diminished by others' perception of you, least of all those who are in no place to make judgements of this magnitude. |
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