Why do people want to be dao and mean to their juniors?
Is it very fun, being mean to them? Do you have some inferiority complex or something, so much so that you need to show your dominance and authority by being mean to people who did absolutely nothing to deserve it? Did you like it when your seniors treated you that way?
So if you don't have an inferiority complex or any equivalent, if your juniors did nothing to deserve it, if you didn't like it when your seniors did it to you...
Then why are you doing it?
What is it with my levelmates going 'I need to be meaner / I'm too friendly with my juniors / I should dao my juniors more / I am going to try to be more dao and mean this year'? Is being friendly to the juniors a bad thing? What kind of world do you live in, one where authority is determined by how bitchy and cold and mean you are towards your juniors? You guys hated it when the seniors were like that to you, some of you cried, etc etc...so why do it to your juniors? Is your life so miserable and your heart so narrow that you derive happiness from making your juniors suffer? That's a pretty miserable existence, isn't it?
I know you guys want discipline in the CCA, you guys want your juniors to respect you, etc etc etc. Is this how you go about it? You gain 'respect' from your juniors by intimidating them and scaring them and ignoring them? You establish 'discipline' that way? That's bullshit, in my opinion. Discipline is established when the juniors know what to do and what not to do AND why, and they follow it. Not just because they're scared of the seniors. That's not respect you're getting, that's fear. And if you're happy being feared, go ahead and live that kind of existence, but I can promise you one thing: when you leave the school, no one will WANT to remember you. You will leave the school, and your juniors will try their best to forget you. You will leave a legacy of fear and hate, if you even leave one at all.
I'm sick of seeing all the friends I thought I knew go out of their way to be mean to juniors. Quite evidently, I don't know them. And if that's the case, if this is what they really are like, I don't care for them either. I won't join them in a miserable existence, they can keep it for themselves and wonder how is it that others seem to get along so well with everyone. I don't care for that existence, I scorn it, and (even though this is going to get me killed sooner or later, but I don't care, I've had enough) I mock all those who live that existence. It is selfish, destructive, painful, pathetic, laughable and useless.
Three things to say, one to each group of people:
1) To the people who try to be mean to their juniors because their seniors did the same to them:Hypocrites and cowards. Your seniors may have been slightly horrible or absolute vermin, I wouldn't know, but to continue that chain of misery and not dare to push yourself to break out of it is cowardly. 'I can't' is not a valid excuse; it doesn't take much effort to at least acknowledge your juniors' presence with a smile or a wave or a 'Good morning' 'Hello' 'Hey', no matter how tired it is. Don't pretend you're too busy to say one word, if you have the energy to tell me you want to be mean and dao all the juniors (and even go on for five minutes about how you haven't done it yet but will get around to it soon), you certainly have the time to smile at each and every junior. Stop being pathetic and cowardly, go be the difference you want but didn't get.
2) To the people who try to be mean to their juniors because it looks 'cool' / establishes seniority / makes you feel good / for no reason at all:Pathetic. That's all I have to say. You live a pathetic existence, the same one I laughed at earlier in the post. You derive happiness from making your juniors feel horrible/scared? Go get a life. You think you're giving off the 'cold and mysterious' aura that everyone wants? No, you're just being a bitch. If I can see that, your juniors certainly can. You think being mean to your juniors gains respect and establishes authority? Why hello there, welcome to Earth. Your juniors don't respect you, they're afraid of you and complain and cry behind your back; your juniors don't follow your instructions out of respect for YOU, but out of 1) fear 2) recognition that you're older than them 3) respect for your batchmates who are actually nice to them, because not following your orders (not instructions, orders) would mean disrespecting the whole batch, including those that are nice to them.
(if you haven't already noticed, I scorn this group of people the most.)
3): The people who try to be mean to their juniors because the situation they're currently in is less than ideal:Your juniors hardly deserve to be your punching bags. Yes, your situation may be worse off than others, but if you use it as a smokescreen behind which you hide, I don't think you deserve sympathy. Chin up, and realise that your juniors did nothing to you and don't deserve this rubbish from you.
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I'm sick of seeing people complain how they're 'not dao enough and not mean enough to the juniors'. Some of us care about the juniors, even if you don't.
It hurts when I see upset juniors, crying juniors, and hear that their seniors have been mean to them. It hurts because I know they don't deserve it. I've talked to so many of them, and it's all the same thing - their seniors are being really mean. Stop it, really. What did these 13-year-olds ever do to you people? Why do you have to be so mean to someone only two years off your age?
I'm really tired. There's only a handful of us, and so many of you. Just a small handful of people. We can play the angel of comfort to the juniors, but that doesn't give you any excuse for what you're doing to them. And there's only so much each person can do. I'm tired, really, I am.
What is it you people want from the juniors? What do you hope to get by making these people feel horrible?
...no answer?
I thought so.