Crowded

There are basically two types of people.  People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things.  The first group is less crowded.
~ Mark Twain

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This is a photo of a bunch of minnows in a creek / river in the town where I live.  The water is very low.  All these little fish are living together in a kind of small, shallow area. 

I started thinking about how we are like these minnows.  The world is getting smaller.  We have more access to others from all over.  Whether it is travel or electronic connections or the fact that the population is growing and the earth is not...  We are closer. 

But maybe we aren't.  Maybe the connections are superficial.  So superficial that we don't connect in meaningful ways even to the people about whom we care - families, loved ones, friends, colleagues...  Maybe we are even further apart and less together than we have ever been.

My main point is that I wouldn't want to be a minnow.