blog 5

Bonds created in activities people partake in.

Ken Dryden wrote this book to give the readers an image of what playing hockey is like and he wrote a lot about the locker-room relations. Everything from post-game reactions to locker-room antics, he covered it all in detail. When people join clubs in sports they usually meet new people and becomes friends with them. In hockey, children and adults are put into teams with people they have never met, once the season is over they have a strong bond formed from all they have done together. When competing and spending so much time with each other, they go from strangers in the start to good friends in the end. Working hard together in team sports helps strengthen trust with each other and eventually they get closer the more they experience together. When people are on teams for long periods of time their bond is so strong that pranks don’t make them as mad as they would be if someone that they weren’t as close with did it. These bonds are so strong that they can last a lifetime, and they will not deteriorate since the bond was created from their equal love towards an activity. These bonds can start when they are mere children having fun, then to the point when they are passion drives them to be the best. If people were to stop taking part in extra-curricular activities they will not be able to meet new people or experience new things. Also, they will not learn any lessons that can be taught from activities such as sports, in which they learn hard-work, dedication, teamwork, and communication. These skills are highly sought after by universities and employers, to ensure that they hire or accept the most qualified and hard-working individual they can. Thus it is important for children to be in some sort of after school activity.