small fry, a manifesto

small fry is sometimes doing nothing, and that's okay. 
small fry likes to give gifts to its friends, one at a time.
small fry tries to change only the tiniest, local-est, part of its world.
small fry treats the work as if it's no big deal at all.
small fry is not much concerned about scope and ambition.
small fry is infinitely prolific, and infinitely obscure.
small fry is always as significant as anything else is, in the cosmic view.

small fry is an approach to creating, the way that the scientific method is an approach to observing the natural world. because, from a different perspective than the one concerned about one's personal influence and scope of impact, we are all small fry, from the mogul tycoon who carelessly innovates new toxic systems, to the exhausted cog ceaselessly revolving on the same gear, to the lauded saints curing other small fry, to your moment right now reading about me. we are all small fry.

and we can approach our ideas as if they are full of promise, poised to tilt the entire  revolution of history, change every life, blow minds. maybe they will. but simultaneously it all exists in the scope of a pale blue dot, full of sound and fury. and in the future they will see our grand ambitions, our major progress, our accumulations of staggering (to us) proportions, as merely a moment in time, maybe part of the climb.

but there is no lasting power in such a goal, the attempt to make concrete the unattainable infinity of the ideal. it will always be dwarfed, it will always be small fry.

small fry is an approach that recognizes instead the lasting power of embracing small, mundane, insignificant, emotional moments. it can be applied to the grandest ideas, sitting on one's shoulder, reminding us that the joys of creating and exploring, observing and sharing, being itself for the sake of experience, can balance the stress and responsibility of solving everything in one fell swoop.

small fry is your friend. be like small fry.