Who are some underrated people in history? – Asks the daily prompt.

I had trouble coming up with some off the top of my head this morning and I went searching for the answer. Wow, there are so many important people I’ve never heard of before or their link to the development of our world. It’s quite amazing, the sheer number of important inventions, breakthroughs, world-changing things people did that I didn’t know about a I suspect few others know about also unless they were in that specific field.

And what I thought as I was going through this multitude of names and contributions is that the answer is (All of US).

I think back to my working days, and I was fortunate enough to work for companies that were team orientated. Oh, there were stars who got public acknowledgement for their work and recognized for it. What I liked is that most were humble about it and shared the credit with co-workers. Not everyone, but a vast majority.

For they knew it was a group effort that made it possible.

All of us are underrated. Some already have made important contributions and live in autonomy and others will make them and be unaware of them.

Maybe it’s something simple like an idea or thought you share with someone that triggers more thoughts and action on a subject.

Many of us toil behind the scenes, people who aren’t the face of companies or leaders who are recognized for their breakthroughs or success. But a lot of us are responsible or contributed significantly towards it.

We get up and go in every morning and try to make positive changes and give supreme effort. We do it because we believe in something. We are inspired to keep it moving forward.

That is what I liked about newspapers. That daily deadline. Getting a complex product of a gazillion inputs, printed and distributed before anyone stirs in the mornings, each and every day. A thing of the past now days, but so exciting and thrilling when it was what everyone had in their hands each morning.

So, to all of us who make the world go round each day, without that fanfare, without the accolades, without the rewards, you know who you are because you probably have the respect of those, shoulder to shoulder with you and that is enough.

Well okay, I’ll pick someone. – The flush toilet was first invented by Sir John Harington in 1596, with later improvements by Alexander Cummings.