Now there is a concept.

Brought forth for consideration in a world where “influencer” is a respected vocation and some guy who goes by “AI” finds the time to write papers, proposals, presentaions, books, answer phones, provide customer service and appear in media shorts or commericals. Sheesh. He must get less sleep than Elon. But I seriously digress…..If this is me writing this….I wonder…

How about the men, women and children that handled the agricultural needs and maintenance here and all over the globe way back when, and in some cases, up to now ?

Or those of varied backgrounds that literally linked nations via rail, or helped to provide a path for vessels to access one body of water into another?

The teens and young adults from all countries that took a bullet in the trenches, on a battlefield, in a jungle, on the ocean, or in the air?

The women that built those modes of death and warfare while keeping families in tact away from the conflict, here, there and everywhere?

How about those labeled, rounded up for their beliefs and essentially converted and reduced to perishable goods across the planet?

Families working diligently and tirelessly to remain intact, so that theirs may learn and live to do the same?

Those gifted with diverse abilities that despite their challenges are well suited to show the rest of us what is important in life?

More of these that are underrated will come to mind I am sure. And these examples don’t even touch the centuries and millenia prior.

The thing I have witnessed about being underrated is that though bearing that mantle it literally means that you have nothing to lose.

Without expectation, there are no foreseeable means to accrue anything of what is deemed as “value”. Least of all, what may be termed as a “future”.

Their being underrated as such, but accomplishing what they did, pretty much cost them everything, but made things happen for us. Eventually.

Despite that, we bask in ourselves, though our gratitude is vastly underrated, if even present.

At all.