"There are no bystanders in this life....Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves," writes Sonia Sotomayor in My Beloved World.
I am among the many who live in obscurity. Lucky me. Seriously.
Famous people tell the stories of how difficult it is to live in a spotlight. Yes, surely so. To have every public moment shadowed and reported on must be daunting, often humiliating. To say nothing of how fame is the thief of safety and other freedoms.
And yet, the ones in the spotlight have no clearer, deeper vision of their real influence in this life than any of the rest of us. Think of it. how do they know their real influence? How do we know our own real influence? Where is the yardstick, the scale, the measuring cup? Just think of it.
Thus it seems worth the effort to attempt to steadily hold an underlying awareness that everything we do (or don't do) matters, whether or not we can tell how it matters. Indeed, "There are no bystanders in this life."
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