I laugh when I think of the word power because it’s something everyone has, and yet the world struggles to find it. When I say the world I mean, individual people, companies, the government, anyone really because it's what being an American means, acquiring as much power as you can, getting over and through anyone because that's how you become successful. Its like a race between everyone to accomplish what few have done. I wonder, how could something so small and minute as power, become so deadly. Most of the time the power we have, we don’t even realize it, or even accept it. Usually people associate dominating over a group of people as power, leading, overseeing, and controlling. However, power comes in all different forms and the most powerful person is usually the person that seems to have the most insignificant power.

I evaluated my life, and weighed the power I had in it. I came to accept the power I have over the people in my life; my friends, my peers, my family however big or small or a role it plays in their lives. It was an easy acceptance because I found myself holding the role of dominance, being the powerful one. Then I began to question the power that might have been held over myself and I find it difficult to accept that. Like almost an instinct, I'd say easily no one has power over me. Where in one sense in might be true like directly controlling my actions, or forcing me to say certain things. In another sense it might not like the power my mother holds over me, which is just something I can’t help. I find myself in the middle of doing something thinking about her and how she raised me. Unconsciously making reacting to a certain way, and then asking myself when had I picked it up and how I now noticed in me what is in her. My mother's imagine has flooded within my subconscious mind whether I like it or not, and that is power.

Getting too much power, it consumes you, at least in my opinion it does. It clouds a persons judgment, making them see life through a different lens, 'the eye of the powerful'. It's like a sense of superiority, something that was owed to a person that has achieved the goal of success. Or there can be the power that consumes a person, making them forget who they are as an individual.

Power is control, and I’d rather admit the power I have over someone than the power they have over me. Giving that up, is like giving up a self power, the individuality in becoming in a sense 'powerful'. Power is also acceptance, accepting the hold something or someone can ave over you. I accept that my mom has a secret place in the back of my mind when I sometimes hear her voice, and admitting it to myself makes the power I have individually stronger. We allow people to have power over us and vice versa because it can also be overcome, it’s just a matter of wanting it.