Face In The Crowd

When a film scene is made of a large mob or fans in the stands or hoards on the streets, most of the faces are digitalized-in and repeated many times to look as though actual people are present. Most of us can't be the stars but in real life, we are the actual audience or the masses partaking. We are the faces in the crowd. When the camera pans the watchers in a large sector, they select for their reasons  the "best" faces to convey the tale of the piece. When you are at a hockey or baseball or basketball game, and the bright lights find you, it could be your moment of the fifteen minutes of fame said to be yours in a lifetime. Most of us don't get that far. The vast majority of the population is what determines the outcomes in our societies, not the few people at the top. The most famous, the richest, the royals are rare but we are the many. We are the ones who put them there by supporting or  spending or voting or going to  performances and plumping their fame by reading or writing about them or seeing them show their talents. We made them. We make them. Someone has to be the audience, the  stock holders, the ticket purchasers, the tax payers, the students, the workers and the fans and so on. Our faces are merely a blur but our numbers form what will happen to those on top. We can make or break them. It's a sort of popularity contest in which the winners have to court this gigantic beast, the general public, to get the support they need in  digits that tell what we have chosen. We are the grains of sand, the beach pebbles, the drops of water, the snowflakes, the termites, the bees. We are the gravel in the cement, the bricks on the tower, the stones in the pyramids, the atoms of iron in the bridge. We are the faces in the crowd and we decide what things will be done. And how. If this, then, is true, and it is, our value is very high. In numbers we have  huge power, even though it is not deliberately directed. We make a personal decision to vote certain ways or comment how we feel on issues or send letters or fill out surveys or just express our opinions verbally. Like the tiny microbes, that crawl on a leaf, we move about on the surface of the earth, billions of us, and our actions clump together to make differences or to keep things the same. We are the tsunami of power. The next time you look in the mirror and think that you are worthless or unimportant or redundant or  powerless, believe that your unique sole presence on earth as a thinking human being, does indeed matter. You are among a huge world wide collection of beings of all colours and shapes and minds and motions and that makes you alone, very accountable and responsible for human survival on this struggling lonely blue planet.