Persons of No Consequence

Persons of no consequence.

The man of no consequence is not really present in the present. Nor is he present in the past or future. He is like a bookmark in the lives of people, helping them to come back to where they left off, but no more essential than the postage stamp on a letter. Essential, but of no consequence, very like a doorway and not the room one enters. It begins in childhood. Not being noticed and only dealt with because you are alive. You must be fed and clothed and housed. In later stages it is about feeling unheard, unfelt, unnoticed, left out. People are surprised when they find you present. You are not excluded. You just don't figure into other people's lives.In your school, your home, your work, you must assert yourself, and even then awarness of you passes off to another or something else. One becomes accustomed to it and it insulates you from most of real life. They do not read your blog because they don't know you are there even though you are.