You Just Can't Teach Commitment

You Just Can't Teach Commitment

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Well, before I move on to explain myself, let me give you a brief history of the whereabouts of this quote. The other day, I was talking to Wing about camp stuff directly after camp post-mortem. He said that he was frustrated about some of the committees coming for the camp for their very own SS agenda. I do admit that it's very frustrating and concluded "You just can't teach commitment". So this is roughly how this quote came about

As for why I said that, there were just too many reasons. My first experience of such situation is back when I was in Form 6. Back then, I was a fairly active Interactor and organizing events was a very difficult thing to do because of the lack of commitment from other fellow committees. They were usually slow in performing the tasks given to them, poor or even slow reporting. Most of the tasks were actually done by the person in-charge instead of the committee as a whole.

Another situation where commitment was an issue was when I was organizing Dhamma Youth Camp in PBHP (Persatuan Buddhist Hilir Perak - Teluk Intan Buddhist association). Still had the same problems of committees not being committed to get the job done as soon as possible. Really frustrating at that time

Both these situations led to last-minute work, uncompleted tasks and so on. Now, let's fast forward to the years after I joined D2YC as committee. Same old problem, same old outcome, not much difference. The difference : it wasn't me who was burdened really badly. It was Chung Kai and Wing who were hit badly by all the workload. As for me, I had my secretariat role occupying most of my time.

Now, I wonder why people want to call themselves committee all that much. As much as it sounds cool being the organizer of an activity or event, it also means that you have to commit to completing the tasks at hand. Since the key word here is to commit, then let us have a comparison check : COMMIT-TEE. Let me give you something to think about

Trainer-trainee (trainee means someone who is being trained)

Employer-employee (employee means someone who is being employed)

Offeror-offeree (offeree refers to someone who is being offered)

Now, back to the root word of commit, there should be commitor-committee (committee referring to someone who is being committed). Therefore, it can be concluded that a committee MUST only be someone who is committed of getting the job done instead of someone who isn't committed

My main frustration is of course the fact that some committees are not committed to the job at hand. My advice : MAKE SURE THAT YOU CAN COMMIT TO THE TASK AT HAND BEFORE BEING A COMMITTEE