Paradox of Power

Power should be given to those who want it least. Sounds paradoxical? But then in life most paradoxes are true. Material pleasure gives us happiness but seldom fulfillment and all that gives fulfillment in life may not necessarily give us pleasure in life.

Power rests lightly on the shoulders of those who do not yearn for it. They exhibit empathy and become custodians, often guardians of power using it in the right measure at the right time for right purposes. They never see power as a means to achieve their ends. For them experiencing the journey of life is much more meaningful than the destination where it takes them.

On the contrary, those who crave for power consume it with insatiable thirst and in the process get consumed by power itself. They get drunk with power and in that heady feeling forget the very purpose for which power was entrusted on them. Power becomes a tool in their hands and they use it ruthlessly to achieve their ends and means do not matter to them anymore. Power corrupts them and they corrupt power positions.

World  and the many organizations in it would have been a much better place had power rested on its guardians. Ironically though, in this world most people who get power belong to the latter category.