Oh, the horrible memories! I recall one year having a fantastic time at New Years Eve party but had to cut off the festivities to get to bed early since the next morning I had to be course at the Org to fucking audit those useless Objectives on a pc. I was so pissed my New Years Eve fun was truncated because of something so pointless I had to do on New Years Day. At least I had some fun the night before. I'm sure many S.O. victims have far worse stories to tell.
Ohhh... I hear you!
I don't know about Objectives yet, but sure can get disappointed when a night which is supposed to be FUN gets f****d up - excuse my French, but that just non-tolerable. In our part of the world, we have PRE-New Year parties, the New Year party (till 5, 6am is normal), then we have AFTER-New Year parties...
I had one Christmas in the SO - one of the worst one can imagine.
I was hanging around the Base, finishing some cycles so that I could route in, so was my new boyfriend. We decided to get married as soon as we both made it as full Sea Org members. He had some more things to complete, and just a few days before Christmas, my recruiters came for me with the good news that yes, I got approved to route in. Great! I said, - see you then next week, after Christmas. I spend these days with my guy, then I am coming.
No, no, you have to come right now! (guess what weekday was that, and what time...) And I don't remember how many people talked to me and they all said how important is that I join right now, how great Christmas present I will give to Ron and Mankind and all that jazz. AND - because I have already done the EPF courses and just had to do a quick exam on each - how cool will it be that I can already attend the Cheese&Beer party as a new SO member, because Christmas in the Sea Org is the most fantastic thing one can ever imagine.
I really didn't want, I was crying and everything, but had no chance against the coertion and gave up. I was in.
One of the STUPIDEST thing I have ever done!!!
I flew through my exams and was ready for the Fitness Board, so that I could graduate. But the EPF I/C disappeared and went to visit his family, and EPF had the afternoon and evening of the 24th off. Wow! Finally we had good food, that was indeed awesome, but that was all there for us to do. And I only had my Fitness Board after Christmas, when the peeps came back from visiting their families.
And I was there, lonely at a strange place where I couldn't do anything nice or fun, couldn't see my boyfriend, couldn't see my 12-year-old son who stayed in our home country with his father, couldn't even phone him!!!, nor my parents, and I was surrounded with a lot of strange people where I didn't really belong to one group any more but didn't belong to another one yet...
I wish that NOBODY has Christmas like this, people can have a cozy time with their loved ones, wherever they are around the Globe.
Merry Christmas everyone!
