In the comics today, Blondie’s daughter and her boyfriend talk about being “influencers”. By way of explanation, she wants to “influence” other people to “make her an influencer”. I’ve recently been curious about the growing careers of online “influencers”, particularly by young people. I’m not sure really what they do, except to post their views, their tastes, and their perspectives on a social media platform and see who responds. And apparently, millions do. A few years back, during the college acceptance bribery scandal, an actress’s daughter, admitted to a California university on a sports scholarship for a sport in which she didn’t participate, the daughter, interestingly, posted that she really didn’t need the scholarship because she already had a career as an “influencer”. And at age 19 at the time, she would bring a rich variety of life experiences and insights to that. Oh, dear Lord. I should point out to that my blogs and occasional newspaper commentaries don’t qualify me to be an influencer, because I’m not. I am merely an observer, writing about things going on around me. Commenting on oast experiences that have shaped my life, but certainly not blazing a path for others to follow.
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“Keep Your Thoughts to Yourself”
Thus said my horoscope the other day. Her Ladyship read it out boldly to me, and we had a good laugh, because, in all honestly, that’s not something I do well. Often over the years, I’d be sitting in a meeting where that little voice in my head would say, “keep quiet”. Sometimes I could, but sometimes, not so much. I come from a long line of “Did I say that out loud?” Irish folks. Discretion and restraint aren’t really our strongest attributes. When Abraham Lincoln said, “It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.”, he may well have had a number of my ancestors in mind.
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I'm Thinking...No! 