Posted on 11.24.08 to Supporting Roles by Jordan Childs

Here’s to the lazy ones.

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Individuals who play the supporting roles are those who live on the fringes of the spotlight. It may shine on them from time to time, but only because they are standing next to the ones for which the beam was intended. I believe those in the supporting roles didn’t have the true grit to make to the lead.

Supporting roles are given to people who are almost hero-worthy self worth.

Yes there are some we admire for their counsel, their sacrifice or simply their presence. But these are desired purely for the comfort they offer us.

So in the true form of those in the supporting roles, I will use the glamour from another piece of work to define mine.

Here’s to the lazy ones.

Here’s to the lazy ones.
The standards.
The conformists.
The peacekeepers.
The assists to the big scores.
The ones who don’t see the opportunities.
They’re not fond of risk.
And they live their life by the status quo.
You can ignore them, forget about them, chastise them,
abuse them, abandon or acquire them.
About the only thing you can’t do is envy them.
Because they are the forgotten ones.
They copy. They mimic. They quote.
They follow. They recreate. They absorb.
They push their chosen idol forward.
Maybe they just have to be supporters.
How else can they stare at an empty canvas only to recreate another’s work of art?
Or sit in silence and wish for the life of a leader?
Or gaze at possibility and see only a hurdle too high?
We have roles for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the lazy ones, we see a wingman.
Because the people who are lazy enough to think
they can’t change the world, are the ones who watch others do it.