[Ansteorra] Which brings us to...

[Rhodes-walden, Jennifer]

I have to agree with the statement that people sometimes find it 'too much
like work.' Having made an attempt to start a thespian group and getting
precisely nowhere - for instance, I announced a meeting a good two weeks in
advance and not a single person showed up. Only one person had the common
courtesy to let me know she could not make it. A few have told me they'd
LIKE to do it, but I've yet to see those people. One lady was kind enough to
explain her delay, for which I thank her, but the rest...

If you will pardon my candidness, this doesn't exactly encourage someone to
organize anything, your Grace. I have to admit, I'm feeling extremely
frustrated... and it leads me to wonder if it's worth my time to try to do
anything new if this is the result. I do realize this is a bad attitude, but
still... perhaps this is the feeling shared by others.

Any advice on how to combat this?

Elysia


-----Original Message-----
From: Susan [mailto:catmafia at swbell.net]
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 11:09 PM
To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Which brings us to...



>I've several different theories from "people are just too busy nowadays"
>to the loss-of-community-mindedness theories.  I suppose it's anyone's
>guess and even the "experts" don't agree.
>
>--Perronnelle

Other aspects of it have to do with the 'time saving modern convieniences'
that seem to create more work.  Also looking at the number of different
things people commit to that take up their time, as well as the number of
activities competing for ones time.  The author of 'Ishmael' addresses many
of these points in his works.  Thus the topic a bit ago about there being
'too many events'.

We were recently trying to come up with a time to hold a revel locally and
it was nigh on impossible to find a weekend that didn't compete with
something else.  The only times when we were able to find gaps in the
schedule in the region were filled in by wars in other kingdoms.

Susan


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