Leader

So I have encountered a Facebook page asking students to define what Leadership is. I planned to post there, but, my post would be too long that I diverted here where I can write as long as I could. So here it goes.

Leadership is not really taught. It is innate. It comes from inside. It is learned through experience. Someone does not need to attend a leadership class to know. It just needs to be improved. Being a leader myself, I still got a lot of things to do, to improve. I know that I am still this lazy little lad who would rather stay at home and watch tv than to work until late late at night just to finish a back drop. In our case, we are not fully-pledged leaders already. We already are janitors, artists, dancers, and performers. I don't know but leaders are not servants at all times! Leaders also need to assign other people to do this and that sometimes. They need to meet the whole body and plan and assign jobs to ease the burdens. Leaders must not do everything and then be mad at their subordinates for being lazy. I know what their subordinates would say, "We were not told. We do not know. He did not assign anything." As the leader of the group, he should know it all - at least, plotted them on a piece of paper with the help of others.

I understand that leadership does not need intelligence but it needs initiative. I may say that I am a leader but I am not a responsible one. I fail. I break down. I am not good. But a prayer would always lift me up. Guidance from my Leader would lift me up to another day of stress and commands.

When this school year ends, I would be a normal student again. Free from any responsibility. How I wish that I would be like that. Even for just one semester.

But it seems it is really innate in me. I don't want to brag here but each time there is a group work, I always start the brainstorming. I always call for the members and we plan out things. In the end, I am tasked as the leader. I laugh at myself when I look back a these times. Especially in High School.

So much for leaders.

I'll try to go upward to the higher leaders, but that would be another post. But let me end this post with a quote that I've recited during my campaign when I was in 3rd grade. I can't remember the person who said it, but I have remembered this line already, "Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned."