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Fight or Flight?

Power or Tower?

The powerful dictates our lives in most cases. The powerful put fear in our hearts at home, at work and even on the street. The powerful can give us a "powerful" position or make us powerless. Doesn't it then sound like we are like puppet on a string? It sounds so pathetic a situation. It makes us seem like cartoons, drawn by an all powerful artist with his pencil.

Perhaps, the flip side does not look all that bad, if we can feel like a tower. Tall and dignified; a beacon for others to find the way. A tower is built with solid bricks, one piece at a time and moves up progressively. The tower cannot be built from top downwards. It has to start from the ground and move upwards, learning all the mistakes of construction, and with a firm foundation.

A tower is one of confidence, hard work and honesty. Confidence of standing tall, in the onslaught of thundering rain and destructive wind. It still stands solid on its foundation, despite all of these forces be there subtle or overt. It is built on hard work; knowing the details and correcting the mistakes to reach the top. An honesty that cannot be destroyed has firm foundation of ethics.

Which would you rather choose? You fight to be a tower or flight to be powerful today, and powerless the next? For me, I choose to be this tower, even though it will take a long time to complete it.

Think about it.
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