So after patting myself on the back for dodging a fun-but-relatively-trivial volunteer activity, I got waylayed by being offered a volunteer activity that would be:
- A tremendous honor, a recognition, and an opportunity that could lead to other nifty things.
- Quite the challenge, personally, causing me to stretch in ways I’m not sure I’m good at and I’m not sure I want to try.
- Something that would be of great use to a cause I care for (a “if not me, then whom?” sort of thing, as well as a “I think I could do some real good” sort of thing).
- A massive time sink that could be somewhat eased by dropping some other related activities, but would still be a net increase, I suspect.
I’m inclining at the moment to say no, for a variety of mostly personal reasons, but it would be one of the first challenges of this sort in my life that I’ve actually said no to, and some of the reasons are less worthy than others (my aversity to using the telephone, for example), and I can’t help wondering if I’m just chickening out.
On the other hand, chickening out in this case might be the right thing to do, for the reasons that are more worthy, e.g., the time impact on my family.
[And, yes, that’s about as specific as I can get at the moment.]
17 view(s)