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Word of the day, courtesy of Mo, is One Thousand. Technically two words.A phrase that is often spoken or written or just rudely bandied about, is that “One person can make a difference”. Whilst this is true to some of life’s important exercises, baking a cake for example, I think that the phrase is only half completed. It should read:
“One person can make a difference but the next thousand are a whole bunch more important”
Not as catchy, I admit.
Person #2 through to person #1001 are the key people in these kind of decisions. Imagine a world in which someone made an inspired speech about change, and every person who listened to him failed to do anything. Who really has the power to change things: the lone man or the silent mass?
Where would romantic comedies or sports films be if someone started clapping and no one followed suit? Instead of the infectious clap, a staple of these kind of films, you’d just be left with a weird person clapping on their lonesome.
The only reason these single people get loads of attention is because they are the ones that get to make the fancy speeches and stand on higher pulpits to the rest. But, put anyone on some higher plane of ground and they’ll seem wise.
So whilst it is important to acknowledge the power one lone person can have on the shape of the world, let us not discount the masses. Those brave souls who listened and followed and did what they were told.
Without them, we’d all be weird people clapping on our own.
:P
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