Power

Today's Thought comes courtesy of the website Art of Manliness.  This was in a post on reading.  Now we all learned how to read, probably in elementary school.  If not, I suppose this amounts to a scathing condemnation of our educational system.  Power is something that everyone, at some point in his or her life, seeks.  It's all around us, and yet it often seems to lead only to corruption.  Hollywood has pointed that out to us many times.  So then, what makes the idea of power so alluring?

Today at work, a couple of my coworkers were interviewing someone over the phone for a magazine article.  I won't get into particulars of the discussion or participants, but I will say that the person being interviewed was a very down-to-earth, respectable gentleman.  At some point in the conversation, the idea of education came up.  He talked how he and his family worked hard and worked honestly to improve themselves.  That's how he got to where he is today.

In the end, education is at the root.  Education is what challenges us as people, it's what helps us grow and learn.  Perhaps that's why I decided to go into education as a career.  It's true, books and education are the way to get ahead honestly and fairly.  Education is the definition of personal improvement.  If we are unwilling to learn, how can we grow?  How can we find power?  Are you developing the power within you?  It's there, I promise.  So this weekend, go to the library, read a book.  Or maybe you have that novel that's been sitting on the shelf for months that you always mean to pick up, yet never seem to read.  I know I have those books.  So take the time.  Read a book.  Develop the power that is within you.