Mainstreamer or Sideliner?

 

Have you ever noticed in life there are people who are mainstream, and people who are sideline? Mainstream people are the ones always in the  spotlight, always the ones people clamor to get next too so that some of that light will haphazardly shine down upon them. These people don't necessarily mean to use others, but generally they do. They tend to make friends with other mainstreamers and as long as things are going well and there is enough spotlight to be shared, then life is grand.But when life isn't so grand, thats when the sideline people come into play.The sideline people are those who stand at the side looking into the light, but never getting any of the luminescence. They go about their mundane lives waiting for the times when the Mainstreamer has no one better to cast their light upon.The sideliners will in a nanosecond,drop whatever it is they are doing, just to have the attention of the Mainstreamer, even though they know that once the Mainstreamer finds another mainstreamer to listen, the sideliner will be shoved back to their natural resting place, the dark. It has always been a curiosity to me why Sideliners stay on the sidelines instead of finding their own spotlight. Maybe its insecurity. Maybe its just their lot in life. What would happen if the sideliners suddenly took over the role of mainstreamers? Utter Chaos I'd say. The whole balance of life would tilt and possibly collapse.  While you have been reading this, have you stopped to think which side of the balance you are on? Ask yourself the prime questions. Do you like the spotlight? Do you have that ability to stand in front? Do you put people on the side to wait for you just in case you have noone to talk too and you need them? Well, I'd say you were mainstream. Do you watch as people move on without you and never ask why? Do you sit like a puppy and wait for morsels of meat to be dropped in your lap?  Do you drop everything when you are beckoned too?  Then I'd say you are sideline.  Now, if you are considering these questions and you realise you are a mainstreamer but feel a bit guilty for it,don't bother, its not your fault. Sideliners have always had opportunity to correct you, but they tend to settle into their own little crack in the sidewalk, wallowing in their own little misery of waiting,begging with their eyes for just a little recognition. But, and its this way with nearly everything I write, this is just to make you think.