Who are your current most favorite people?

My favourite people!

There is a certain quality of anathema about this question from where I sit. So often, people think of their favourite people as those who, in one way or another, are “Influencers”. Influencers are people who are used or upheld in some way as social bastions, who teach their wares loudly and seek to influence others to do what they do. Metaphorically, these people are shepherds intent on herding sheep in a particular direction, all aimed at feeding the ego of the influencer.

I think of Influencers in a more negative context. They are like the Pied Piper leading the rats of Hamlin to the River Wezer, to drown in their confusion and uncertainties.

It worries me greatly that unknown “Influencers” are able to so drastically and often negatively, to impact upon people who follow them like Blind Freddie. They copy them, and hang onto their every word.

To date, these sorts of influencers have played no part in my life, and I hope that they never will. I also hope that all members of my family will adopt the same mindset—that they own the outcomes of their lives and do not allow their thinking to be shaped by what other people do.

I have a lot of respect for many people and no respect for many more – that because of the pathways they have taken through life.

Without a shadow of a doubt my favourite people are members of my family, with children and grandchildren helping to enrich the life of this old man.