How many times have we heard the equivalent of “You are getting too big for your own britches! Who do you think you are? You’ll get the big head! Don’t make waves! Don’t stand out!”
Someone said in an email:
“I realize that I am afraid to take my Power because I would alienate ‘Them’ and ‘They’ would be afraid of me. I would be too big for my britches. There can only be one Cook, one Chief and how dare I think it should be me.
‘They’ are thinking that if I take charge, what will happen to them? It would kill them to have to answer to me. Besides, I may become as tyrannical, bossy, uncaring, bitchy, and controlling as ‘Them.’ I don’t want to be as using, and manipulative as ‘Them’.
