[Ansteorra] Query...

[Rob rose]

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Why did i join?  It was new and different. At least to me.  Plus it looked way
too fun.

Why do i stay?  That's the easy one.  extraordinary people.  I think that
ordinary people stay home and play payrolls and paychecks.  Extraordinary
people do extraordinary things.  Somewhere, i found a home amongst some very
extraordinary people.  I found family in them.



Ian macleod
>From: "Theron Bretz"
>Reply-To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
>To:
>Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Query...
>Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 20:20:23 -0500
>
> > So...why did you join and why do you stay in the SCA?
>
>I first heard of the SCA when I was 14 or 15, reading L. Sprague de Camp's
>"The Blade of Conan", a collection of stories and articles from "Amra" (a
>Conan fanzine from the 60s). One of the articles was by Poul Anderson and
>entitled "Richard the Lionhearted is Alive, Well, and Living in the
>Twentieth Century", which gave a snapshot of the SCA circa AS 5 or 6. The
>notion of people putting on armour and playing knight was too cool to put
>away and colored much of my free time for the next few years as I improvised
>highly dangerous weapons and somehow avoided killing my brothers with them.
>
>I finally found the Society just before TYC, and my first event was the
>Crown Tourney in Emerald Keep that Inman won for Drusilla. I got horribly
>ill from heat-prostration (the hole-in-the-ground toilets didn't help
>either - another thing I don't miss about the old days), got better, watched
>the tournament (which was held on a Sunday) and resolved to keep doing it.
>
>Why do I stay is sometimes a tougher question. With job, family, mortgage,
>a nascent writing career (very nascent, barely there at all, really), and
>other interests, making time for the Society is something I have to do
>consciously. My reasons for sticking around change depending on a number of
>factors: a sense of obligation and "giving back", a desire to teach, the
>joy of fighting in a tournament, sheer inertia. Often times, Bia and I
>find that one or the other is more fired up about the Society than the other
>and that helps to keep things going.
>
>But I'd be lying if I said I didn't think once in a while about how much
>easier things would be if I gave it up until the kid gets older. But I know
>that if I did, I probably would keep finding reasons not to play, so I stick
>around.
>
>Luciano
>
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