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Ordinaries

Behold!

A world wrought with prosperity
Alas, a world also wrought with the lack thereof
A superposition of sorts,
where parts of this world are stable, yet others, they falter.

Behold!

A gathering of beings.
Some flourish.
Some do not.
Those who do not, are called Ordinary.

Behold!

A person. Ordinary. By whose standards? Yours?
Mine? Alas, the standards of the beings.
But this person stands free
A lack of desire for conformity,
Yet a profound desire for morality.

Behold!

A Community!
Birthed from the works of this person known as Ordinary,
Such ordinary things canst bring great things?
Perhaps, but let us define the state of ordinary.

Behold.

A struggle.
A struggle of a person. The person known as Ordinary.

Behold.

Thy struggle.
The struggle of Your person. Deemed by thy community as Ordinary.

Behold the shared struggle.

Behold the advances arising from said struggles.

Behold.

I say to thee again, being of Ordinary:

Behold:

Thy struggles, and the struggles of Ordinary.
Is it fair to give label to others?
When thou canst fit into the same label?

For Behold:

This community
This gathering of beings
Was, and is, brought to life by those deemed Ordinary
Yet working in the background.

Behold, these beings:

Are working behind those with success greater than theirs,
Yet an impact
By some measure, some power,
more profound than those more successful,
or, those who appear to have greater success

The Ordinary.

How can this be?

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