I guess Mr. Belt and I never realized how we might have changed the community. It ' s too bad we didn ' t recognize we had something to give to our community earlier. Instead we just sorta lived here, bemoaning the fact that our two kids didn ' t have anything to do or any place to go. A parent provides a model of behavior for the child. Complaining about a situation is not the solution to a problem.
Much human energy is wasted.
Mrs. Belt could have identified the need for a community playground for the children. Certainly there were others in her neighborhood who would have supported her and together they could have sought some solution to this problem. Many communities are faced with important critical problems. In too many of these communities, only a few people are interested. Sometimes these few are the same few who seem to control almost everything that happens.