Opus 2024-027: Influence

I am highly amused at the title given to people who record videos on the Internet.  I keep hearing people called “influencers”.  That is their job title it seems.  I’m not sure whom they influence.  I’m not sure that their influence is good.  But that’s what they’re called.

I realize that I have influencers in my own life.  They don’t sit down in front of a camera and make a motion picture selfie, which they keep redoing until they get exactly the effect they want.  These are people who just live life in front of me.  These are people who make comments without stopping to think about how they’re going to influence.  They are friends and neighbors.

What brings this to mind was last night at the end of dinner.  I was out with an elderly group from our church, and as we got up to leave one of the younger ones in the group shared with me exactly what I was feeling.  He said after sitting a long time it is really hard to get up and move again.  I thought it was just me.  If I listen to the doctors and the people in the videos, influencers, I would think that I needed to get their advice on how to avoid this.  My analysis was, “I’m getting older”.  My fellow diner agreed.  We are getting older.  It affects our bodies.  It slows down our minds or speeds up the rest of the world.  Either way, it is real.

Welcome to life.

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