Repercussions

I imagine the world to be a big swimming pool, rippling surface of the water is representative of all the ideas, and movements and individual character makes. Each moving character has ripples going out from it, changing the surface of the water, and moving other things with it. In general life the ripples would look like a normal swimming pool bouncing around, some small, some slightly bigger, but not a lot really going on. Big thinkers and changers are moving the water with extreme force and causing large waves, some characters are completely still just being moved by the waves and ripples that hit them. Some people are making a splash, which seems huge in the moment, but minutes later after the initial shock, everything is back to the normal subtle rippling of the water. Big groups of people can work together to create a wave, and people coming one after the other can create a current. But many people are just sitting there, taking it all in, letting the waves wash over them and moving with the current, not doing anything to make themselves known other than having the ripples of others bouncing off of them.