A Point
of View

by don campbell

Talking to people about minor hockey and listen-
ing to other people talk about it, gives me the opportun-
ity to add a little more about commitment. And, although
minor hockey is the example, it applies to most other
situations that arise around us.

I have a basic belief that there are two kinds of
people - givers and fakers. The givers are the people who
make things happen, they volunteer to help out, they
coach, they do fund-raising, they take their kids to games,
they go to meetings, they also take other people’s kids to
games. The takers, on the other hand, live off the good
graces of the givers. Sure, they pay their money and they
see that their kids get to the games (sometimes) and they
go to the games (sometimes), but they are too busy to
really get involved. They are too busy or too lazy to go
to meetings or become chairman of some committee, or
to work at all the extra little details involved in any type
of organization.

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Cassiar is no different in this respect than any
other community, because the whole world can be looked
at in this same light. I am sure that all of you who read
this can think of similar situations in a hundred differ-
ent places.

The unfortunate part of this is that there are all
kinds of people out there who have something to give,
and for whatever reason, they are not sharing that with
the rest of us. That to me is the sad side of this issue and
especially so when the giving involves children.

A few years back, when my own kids were grow-
ing up, | found myself in the situation of belonging to
groups and organizations because the kids wanted to. I
also would get terribly upset with the attitude of a
number of the parents who were always too, busy or not
interested or, for whatever reason, used the organiza-
tion as a baby-sitting service. My commitment, however,
to my kids and the organization always kept me there and
I used the rationalization that if at some time I could
not be there, some kind parent would do for my kids as
I was doing for theirs.

Whatever reasoning we use as parents, most of
us manage to get through the hockey tournaments
or the scout meetings or whatever; it’s just that some-
times we have to spread ourselves a little too thin and
it would be nice if there were a few more givers.

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