Spare Thought #01: Beginnings

Nobody has ever waited for permission to start a movement. They just move, slightly before the signal, and hope someone follows. Most don’t, yet sometimes three people do, then they become a crowd, then the crowd becomes inevitable.
Spare Thoughts is a series of my short, numbered observations
No. 01 is below. The rest are coming.

Spare Thought #01:
I watched someone cross the street at the wrong time yesterday. It wasn't dangerous, no, just slightly before the light changed. Nobody died. Noone there even honked. There were three people behind that person and they crossed too. A body in motion is the most persuasive argument humans ever invented. There was neither a manifesto nor a speech.  Someone just decided to move, and suddenly there's a crowd following behind. I've been thinking about that ever since. Every movement that ever changed anything started with someone crossing slightly early and multitudes following because it looked like the action taker knew something that the rest of the people didn't. Nobody knew anything, they just got tired of waiting.
Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Spare Thoughts #01: Beginnings

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