Crocodile
G.O.A.T.
Yesterday ( Sunday afternoon) I decided to drive over to my sisters place to give her some cash to buy a cooked smoked turkey for Christmas dinner. Usually it’s my job to do it but since she is no longer working and I’m working long hours she offered to go to the shop and I could just pay her and it’s all done. Anyway she told me to be there by 4.30pm as later she was going out so I did just that.
So when I got to her house she had explained to me that she was getting ready to go to church at 6pm.which I thought was a little unusual as she normally goes in the morning, so I questioned her about it. She told me that she did go to the church in the morning but she was trying out this other church in the next suburb. She had been going to the one church on Sunday mornings for the past, how many years I can’t remember plus bible study. So I prompted her a bit more to get her to elaborate what was going on and among various reasons she concluded that at the old church they were a bit cliquey at and she was looking for something better with more biblical teaching.
Anyway driving home I sought felt a little sad for her in that sometimes it’s hard to fit in to places or find your crowd especially if you are not native to a city or country.
While there is always two sides to a story sometimes it can be a difficult and lonely experience for particularly an older person ( male or female) who is say single again for any number of a variety of reasons, plus not having their day occupied when they were fully employed, to find a place where they can feel like they belong to a community or group.
I think part of the solution is to belong to a variety of different groups and pursue different past times to say broaden your social circle and meet new friends.
Anyway have any of you experienced this type of cliquey scenario, maybe it’s a tennis club or association you play at . While I think cliques form when an organisation has a core group that have known each other for years so much that others can’t break into the group, but what do you think causes cliques and cliquey behaviour and if you are running say a tennis club how would you go about making sure it doesn’t happen where you are. I always thought you need sought of like a social committee that strives to implement an outreach strategy to check on people and make them welcome. Have you got a very welcoming club where you play tennis. What do you think about this?
So when I got to her house she had explained to me that she was getting ready to go to church at 6pm.which I thought was a little unusual as she normally goes in the morning, so I questioned her about it. She told me that she did go to the church in the morning but she was trying out this other church in the next suburb. She had been going to the one church on Sunday mornings for the past, how many years I can’t remember plus bible study. So I prompted her a bit more to get her to elaborate what was going on and among various reasons she concluded that at the old church they were a bit cliquey at and she was looking for something better with more biblical teaching.
Anyway driving home I sought felt a little sad for her in that sometimes it’s hard to fit in to places or find your crowd especially if you are not native to a city or country.
While there is always two sides to a story sometimes it can be a difficult and lonely experience for particularly an older person ( male or female) who is say single again for any number of a variety of reasons, plus not having their day occupied when they were fully employed, to find a place where they can feel like they belong to a community or group.
I think part of the solution is to belong to a variety of different groups and pursue different past times to say broaden your social circle and meet new friends.
Anyway have any of you experienced this type of cliquey scenario, maybe it’s a tennis club or association you play at . While I think cliques form when an organisation has a core group that have known each other for years so much that others can’t break into the group, but what do you think causes cliques and cliquey behaviour and if you are running say a tennis club how would you go about making sure it doesn’t happen where you are. I always thought you need sought of like a social committee that strives to implement an outreach strategy to check on people and make them welcome. Have you got a very welcoming club where you play tennis. What do you think about this?
