The Power Surge

Oladimeji Olushola
Nov 3 · 2 min read

#KhakiStories Ep5

You must do it this way, my decision is final and there's nothing anybody can do about it, get angry all you like, I don't care. Statements in these order graced my days because I had no power.

People can be power drunk and Intentionally or unintentionally stall progress, kill moral and untimately abuse opportunities.

I was in this fix, great ideas, fantastic plans, infact we were executing already until 'Mama G' came with "laye laye, ko le shele bayi oo" (it can never happen like this)

Leaders with inferiority complex or who feel intimidated by subordinates are usually a handful, they never think straight and in their attempt to be wise, they will a big signpost of folly but guess what they still can't read it on themselves, so everybody just watches them.

The team was grately affected by 'Mama G', I was equally bad at accepting such an obstacle yet work had to be done, date was set and very realistic target had to be met---- Mama G cut us some slack please, I protested and then it became open enmity, it was a disease that spread around affecting nobody but her.

In all of those moments, I Iearnt, it's a total error to sit numb and innactive under the guise that ' I don't like positions' you are not being humble, you are just being humbly proud waiting to be led, if unfortunate, by a coward who got the position by chance. If this is direct replica of Nigeria, I don't know.

It resounded in my consiouness to always admire, contest and take up positions. Your good intents will end up with you without seeing any iota of light if you aren't in some key positions to influence the change you desire. Simply put, some changes can only be made when actively in power. HEY, get power.

I do not subscribe to aggressively slapping personal opinions on people's face or taking power through dubious unrepresentative means. Power is good, people who are drunk or overtly ambitious never make good use of it.

When you see openings or In a gathering, register your presence in the most polite and reasonable way possible, from there you can get support and a certain level of credibility base. That might be it for the next level shift.

Dont lie fallow, you don't know the worth of your potentials if you don't actively engage. Make mistakes, it shows you are human, grow into perfection it shows you are human and if you can do it, others can. What kind of story will your presence or absence tell?

Get power, being actively numb is more expensive, you demand to be led when you can lead.

Aseyori

    Oladimeji Olushola

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