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Follow Me to Freedom 1
I have often reacted similarly to when I started to read Claiborne the way I always do when I read literature referring to radicalism and fanaticism. I feel like I don't have the stomach for it, that I'm not strong enough to respond to it's challenges. And this is exactly what I felt when I started reading Claiborne 4 days ago. It took me all this time to start my journal.
I would like to clarify here. I used to love to read stuff like this, when I was single and younger and idealistic. But it looks like, after I have settled down and have a family, realism and sedimentation has caught up with me. And I have developed some kind of a fear to be daring and radical. And it makes me ask: is leadership also for people like me?
Now, I feel like the suggested schema of this journal succinctly describes my journey. When I was younger, I felt I had a vision to share to the world. I gained a bit of experience and I thought I was ready to lead. Many circumstances, however, came in my way and, instead of facing them as challenges and stepping stones to higher achievements, I might have just conceded in considering them as hindrances and obstacles.
Now, I'm just contented in following. This is not a passive subservience, but an active and willful act of believing that in "following" and fulfilling the tasks entrusted to me, I am actually leading by example. My vision: leading among the ranks of followers.
Article posted December 6, 2010 at 09:33 PM •
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