Mr. Happy Nobody

It would seem that the Happy Nobody has made a recording giving us a song for the summer. Who is the Happy Nobody? You have seen him at least a few times on television. For sure! The happy nobody is that enigmatic individual with a beard and a big smile we have all seen every now and then on the TV screen, always immediately behind somebody public, famous, popular or important. Sometimes with a fair sized so called sandwich board hanging from his neck, with some kind of message of morality or clear declaration, without any claim or demand; but he never speaks out.

He is often seen behind or near these well known people, politicians, film or TV stars, singers, rock idols, footballers; hanging around the entrance of their houses, outside hotels and restaurants where these people had just entered or come out, even at airports or hospitals. He limits himself to just being there, silently, watching and following the reporters and photographers, jostling to get close to the celebrities for a few words or a couple of images. He? He wants nothing. The cameras that managed to capture the desired photos or footage with the famous or infamous, forever painting the colourful canvas of our time, would have captured the quietly smiling Happy Nobody too. Always looking contented. Nobody ever says a word to him, and to nobody he says a word either.

Is he simple minded, retarded, or what? I guess none of that. An ectoplasm of the present, a reflected image of the TV viewers themselves. We see him there like we see all the others there, because we look. He always chooses to situate himself near the celebrities because those people command attention. He is like a thermometer of eyes. Of our attentive look drawn by those people. He is a vampire fed on our eyes, then afterwards return to his coffin until the next outing.

He is there so that we can look at him looking at us. He is the representative sent by us to manifest our own presence there in public events, and in the focus of the camera, flanked by famous football stars, film stars, and rock stars. We are there if we could or would. But there is always someone who is willing to. Aren't we all a bit of a Happy Nobody?

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