Organising Social Events?

This is an interesting question.  Over the years I have oscillated between being the social lynchpin of a community to a social hermit.

I have noticed that there people that seem to organise people and events and others or seem to just to go them.

After a period of hermit, I decided I should go and organise an event and put a huge amount of time, effort and personl $ into a house party.

Did, I enjoy the event; well to be honest my main focus was on everyone else having a good time and the clean up (with no help) was pretty brutal and it is easy to think; why bother.  Also generally the feedback or apparent appreciation was relatively low even though I know people had a good time.

So, why bother? Well here are a few reasons to ponder:

• Are you a giver or a taker? 
• Is everyone chose not to bother, then nothing would ever happen?
• If you are organising an event, are you doing it for you or for other people?  It makes a difference.
• What do you do to build a strong community of friends around you?

I will show you a few photos of the event in another blog post as can’t be serious all the time!

So, what should my next social get together be;

Organising Social Events?