Being Invisible

Nicole Johnson, on being the invisible woman:

It struck me, watching this, that Nicole's talk was applicable to a bigger audience than just the women in attendance.  In a big way, she was talking to all of us.

The greatness we see around us today, here in America, was built by a few "named" people and many "nameless", invisible ones.  People that time has erased their names, but not what they've built.

Many of the nameless were not attempting to get their names recorded in history books, and they succeeded in that.  Many of the named were also not attempting to be recorded in history.  In that, they did not succeed, but what they did in building this country is still fondly remembered.

Today's politics seems to have bred a third type of person.  A person not only seeking to do something great, but to be recorded in history as great as well.  One who wishes to be oh so visible in all that they do so others will note it and praise them for it.

I hope the ones I speak of realize that greatness is not something they can control individually, but is something future times will note when it is time to write about them.  If it should pass that nothing is written about them, does that belittle the greatness they do today?  I think not.  Doing something only to be noticed so cheapens the greatness one strives for.

-Colonel Steve