Observing the participants

In this world, there are people fortunate enough to be able to live as observers, perhaps occasionally commenting publicly. Others, also fortunate, are people who work hard enough with sufficient skill and luck to be able to live well. Then there are the rest, who get by, sometimes not well enough to get by for long.

This observation is not new. Generations of people through thousands of years have known and will learn this. Yet people still write it down and communicate it. Some part of them must hope to live, even if only so briefly, as observers in a sea of participants.