Don’t stand there! Do Something

I was not the greatest folksinger around. When I was on the road, I didn’t write a famous journal. And as a carver, I’ve never grown an extensive following. Let’s see, I’ve done lots of other stuff as well, anthropologist, videographer…probably other things I can’t recall at present. It doesn’t really bother me that, in this New Year, I can’t look back on all the great acclaim that followed me.

Nope, no fame, no acclaim! But I didn’t sit in the cheap seats, be entertained, yawn, and let life drift on past the window. I do not need a reset I worked on creating things.

I was talking to someone the other day about the folk scene in Greenwich Village, right at the start of my wanderings. At the outset, I insisted that I was a nobody in the Village. But I actually knew and observed lots of somebodies, lots of interesting events, and participated in life as a performer and as a creator of the culture. If our life were a musical or opera, I would have been in the chorus. No, I was not one of the people passing by in the tourist bus. As we sometimes put it, I was a part of the circus. I was doing something and creating something. Even a little something.

The moderator is mentioning the main action. But it takes a lot of people to create a show. Eachone creating their own little piece and mostly moving, making the scene, not a net consumer.

In the new year, don’t just sit there. Do something. Paint, knit, carve, write a poem, or a post. Talk to your grandkids about your life! Be a net contributor to society.

Don’t sit in the cheap seats and let it all pass you by.