fandomhigh | Leadership: Wednesday, Period 1, Class 14 (4/15/09)

"There's one more aspect of leadership that isn't all fun and games," Nathan said after the class filed in. "That is sacrifice. Personal sacrifice. You already know that you won't be able to make everyone happy. However it's not going to be possible to make yourself happy all of the time either.

"What's the most important thing to you?" Nathan asked, looking them all over. "Family? Stability? As a leader it may be your job to give those very things up. You have to ask yourself if you can give those things up. Could you leave your home to be with your troops as they go to war? Could you cut off contact with your family if it meant keeping them safe?

"There's no one answer," Nathan said. "I know what I would do. You have to determine what you would do. For today's exercise I want you to write down five things that are the most important to you. Then write down what would make you give up those things if you had to. Then ask yourself if you could give up those things.

"You can keep the paper or destroy it after class is done," Nathan assured them. "The information is for your eyes only, though you're welcome to talk with your classmates if you want."

[ooc: OCD is up!]

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Tahiri Veila

Lee Adama

Dōjima Yurika

Yasutora Sado

Hoshi Sato

Peyton Sawyer

Ichigo Kurosaki

K-Mart

Naomi Wildman

Zayne Carrick

Take notes, do the assignment, talk amongst yourselves, boggle at Nathan's fluffy optimistic view of the world...

Tahiri was seriously starting to wonder. Was there a single issue she had that wasn't going to get poked at this month? She understood what Nathan meant by personal sacrifice, but part of her mind was interpreting that in a very different, much more literal way. And unfortunately, the two interpretations as informed by her own experiences . . . couldn't really be separated, even as much as they were at odds with each other.

The expression on her face as she stared at the piece of paper in front of her was distant, unfocused, conflicted, maybe a little alien.

This...was a tough one. Lee knew what five things he'd write down without a thought but what would have to happen to make him give those up was tougher. There were things he didn't want to give up. He didn't think he had to give those things up.

He scribbled a few things down. And then painstakingly tried to think of things that would make him give those things up.

It wasn't going well.

Chad didn't actually need much thought on this; it as a topic that he'd always had a very firm view on.

The five things he listed were all people.

The only thing that would make him give them up was if it was necessary to give them up to protect them.

But he made it clear that whatever was threatening them would have to go through him first.

Hoshi agonized over her list for quite a while. And then when she had her five things, she agonized even more on what it would take to give up those things.

If this class had happened at the beginning of Dōjima's tenure at Fandom, it would have been easy. You did what you had to do, you did the job, no matter what.

Now, however, there was a Montague boy that complicated things. A lot. Yurika was just as ruthless as she'd been when she arrived, but her priorities had shifted just slightly. The job still came first, unless it put a few very select people in danger.

Then, well, she didn't really know what she'd do.

This was... so not something Peyton could deal with today.

She sat with the paper and sketched and erased and just in general accomplished absolutey nothing.

What was important? A number of things, yes. People for the most part, but one thing was most important and that was to protect people. After that, the math was easily done.

Before this past weekend, K-Mart wouldn't have had any idea as to her list. Now, though, she wrote it quickly. Claire, Savannah, Johnny, Hurley, family. That last one was underlined a couple times for emphasis.

And she quickly concluded that nothing in the world could make her give them up willingly.

This assignment was actually really tough for Zayne. Part of being a Jedi was self-sacrifice. He hadn't seen his family in a couple years. He had very few possessions. He had very little money. He didn't even have the classmates who had been like a family to him for years right now.

He came up with a list after a while, but he felt it was pretty weak.

Should you wish.

OW OW HEADACHE OW.

Which is to say I'm home sick so most of my day is ideally going to be unconscious and snuggling with cats. I am not prepared to sacrifice that, hoooo no.

Oooooh. Triggery issue for Tahiri today.

Which is not to say that she won't be participating in class -- just a heads-up that she might be a little, um, unstable. :) In that special "half of my brain is occupied by a fanatical pain-worshiping sacrifice-loving militant personality" way.

Leadership: Wednesday, Period 1, Class 14 (4/15/09)

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