Life & Wisdom Quote by Bob Anderson

The sentence is pure committee-room poetry: a promise of inclusion that also quietly admits how easy exclusion is. “We don’t want” frames the issue as intention rather than outcome, a subtle legalistic move that preemptively asks for credit for goodwill even if someone does get left out. It’s less a declaration than an alibi-in-progress.

“Miss anybody” and “slight anybody” are doing different kinds of work. To “miss” suggests accident, a dropped email, a name that fell through the cracks. To “slight” suggests choice, a social hierarchy, the intentional snub. Pairing them lets the speaker cover both sins at once: the logistical and the political. It’s a line that tries to domesticate conflict by treating hurt feelings like scheduling errors, while still nodding to the reality that recognition is power.

The repeated “anybody” has a democratic ring, but it’s also vague enough to avoid naming the actual stakes. Who counts as “anybody” is often the whole fight: the overlooked contributor, the marginalized guest list, the partner who did invisible labor. In a writerly context, it reads like the anxious preface to credits, acknowledgments, invitations, or awards - those moments when community becomes a ledger and omission becomes a headline.

The subtext is the social fear behind all public lists: once you start naming, you start ranking. This line tries to thread that needle with humility, but it also signals that someone already suspects they’re about to be missed.