Former Kenya Attorney General Reflections on Power……

I learnt that the Bible was right all along; all of it is vanity. At the end of the day, I used to say when I was younger, “In the fullness of time, everything settles back.”

Power is an illusion because at the end of the day when the music stops, when the curtains fall, you have to go home and be yourself; a father, a husband, a brother, a villager coming to bury the dead with the other villagers.

Unless one is a hereditary monarch waiting to pass away in the palace, at the end of the day everybody must step away.

Unfortunately, for the majority of us who have the privilege to work in a public office, the ultra-ego becomes an obsession so that the chase cars and the saluting, aides rushing around with the bags become an end in itself. And even when you are no longer happy, you don’t know any other life. You crave it like a junkie because you have forgotten any other life.

Source: The Business Daily