The Root of Our Problem

I have recently had a revelation about a thing I hold dear in my life, show choir. It was strange because on the outside, the problem we have is not directly conneted to me. But in reality, it will more than likely affect me more than those who have the problem.

We knew that in show choir, we had a talking problem. I believe it is rooted in the beginings of your freshman year in high school if not before. You most likely had friends when you got to high school that you knew from middle school or somewhere else. I remember sitting in freshman orientation and hearing the phrase, " Get involved to make friends and have fun." I remember this year telling the freshman, I wish I would have had more friends and more fun my freshman year. This is the reason I think I don't have the problem that our showchoir has, talking too much. When people came to my school freshman year, some joined our freshman show choir. As anyone could guess that is where they made friends and those people are still friends now and still in show choir together.

The trend could only continue through the prep showchoir as almost all the people in the freshman show choir moved up to the next level. Now that members of the group can drive, they can spend more time outside of school with their friends and their friendship grows stronger. By the time they have reached the varsity show choir, almost everyone has a group of friends and they want to talk all the time.

And therin lies the root of our problem. The answer is not as clear because we can't eliminate friendship, we just need to control when the friends talk to each other. I have faith that we will find an answer, but if we don't ...... who knows. the fate of our sucess really rests on finding that solution.