Being No One

Most of us are no one. We will never be famous or make an important contribution to the world. We live and will die having done nothing particularly wonderful. Realizing that, after watching a film about the late Susan Sontag, for example, or the lives of other intensely committed, productive people, is humbling, and even could be rather depressing. But then, on thinking about the matter of having been born and living our lives and what matters to bringing it all around to making sense, is the job of the masses. It's knowing there are those just like me who will not make any special impression at all, but who will simply have an existence and then depart to be forgotten eventually. So what's it all about? Why were we born? Why do we live? Those who accomplish great things, do it for us: those who didn't or couldn't.  Here we are, the average folk, using all of the wonders of discovery: the inventions, the creations, the scientific inroads to medical and all other practical solutions and innovations manufactured just to keep us going. We look around at the engineering marvels: roads, bridges, buildings, vehicles, and we use them without giving a second thought to the human beings who laboured to make them for our use. If it were not for us, they would have had no motivation, no reason We are the world, we the average people. Our importance is in using it all and respecting the convenience, the aid, the benefits of such things. It was done for us, and sure, maybe vast amounts of money were made by the few, in the development along the way, but for us, there is a very small cost in using and existing and taking advantage of that  progress. We are the recipients and benefactors. That's our reason for being here. Someone has to be the audience, the users. Of course, there is a minority of  the negative human kind who put out bad energy to do bad things, but they are merely bumps in the road of  life. They don't matter. They are warped people who can't and don't win. They can't because the world's people are in nature, focussed on positive progress. And though we are sometimes intrigued by evil, we don't tarry there. The regular people of the earth want to go on and on.  We deal with the criminals and greedy and all of that sort but step over them and their wrong, to head into the future with hope for all that is good and beautiful and true. That's our purpose and goal just to be as we are, us.