Who here cant honestly say that they have been driven by power, that when they have power in their own hands they seek to use it without thinking of anything but themselves or who or what emotional/physical damage it does to one other.
Being able to control your surroundings, manipulate minds, push people to the bare edge knowing that even though they are friends you know them well enough to know that they will come running back. When you have it lying there in front of you, you stop and you think immediately about how you can use it to your advantage.
There is know hiding, everyone knows that everything is for sale and everything has a price, just a matter of the bargain you get in return. With power we forget to take into consideration the bargain we get in return as we never think about future aspects of power just the fact that we have it and the lust to use it controls our minds.
Very few people have the ability to resist what they feel is ultimate power. I have to say i am not one of them. Lately i feel i have had power in my hands and i feel the urge to want to use it to my own advantage. Seeing though i havent had the best of years ... neither the worst though i still feel i have to use power in order to get what i want.
Selfish i know, trust me im struggling to come to terms with who i really fight for in terms of the 'Good side' or the 'Bad Side' e.g. Heroes or Villains. This is causing me to go a bit out control, to go to rash distances to see who i really am and if i prefer power of anything else.
No matter how many times people are told that lust for power only ends in disaster, it still wont affect the outcome of which what people are actually going to do if they are confronted with it. You would be very suprised at how quickly people fall to curtain amounts of power and even more suprised to see when its you or a friend that is faced with it.
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odd that i should be reading this post this morning. last night my little sister and i got into an argument while we were out running together. i got inordinately angry and i refused to finish our route with her, even though she is afraid of the dark and ended up going home. it just hit me that not only was i given the opportunity to exert power over someone else last night, i used the opportunity against someone who, in that case, is weaker and more vulnerable than myself. disgusting.
but excellent post. thanks for bringing this power issue to my attention.
wow, awesome blog, stupidly sad, but true.
i have no idea why i do it...cause i do do it quite a lot. where someone is flawed, i make it my strength, and sometimes i go out of my way to make it my strength just to be the 'better one'.
its really something we should reflect on cause its something shouldn't happen.
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