Power, which seems to be in vogue these days, is not really something that is granted, given, or reallocated. Power, true power, is harnessed from within. Your ability to influence the world around you is not something bestowed on you by an authority figure. Your ability to influence comes from a well spring of an internal reservoir. An authority figure can grant you a title, or perhaps permission but the actual ability, or power, to lead others is entirely earned.
Unfortunately, I hear and see people advocating something entirely different. Power to influence others, as it seems, is treated as if it was an honor bestowed by those in power. As if being in power is the same thing as exercising power. We learn very quickly when those bestowed with title, or the supposed transference of power, that they are as the emperor that wears no clothes. No more ability to wield power than a newborn baby.
You can pretend all you want to that the transfer of title will make you a great leader. When that fateful moment comes, you will realize very quickly that there is no Gin that grants your wishes. Your ability to lead is something earned via the refiners fire, never is a sharp, tempered blade forged in an instant.
This mistaken identification of power as a noun, an object, that can be transferred is an error of reason that only the weak ever make. To be strong, is to be one that has earned power and recognizes that the exercise of it is action, a repeated action, that you have learned over the course of time.
Guy Reams
