M.L. Wang

The funny thing about power is that no matter what you think it is, or how much you think you have, it's the people above and all around you who get the final say.

I__ not sure how old I was when I first tried looking in the mirror and telling myself, with a shiver of pride and a warning prickle of something like fear, __ am the most powerful person in the world._ In a way, it was true. My hands and mind could do things no one else__ could, but I was too young then to understand that some power__he kind that really matters__omes from other people. And what good is being faster, or stronger, or smarter than everyone else when it leaves you all alone?

Power means different things to different people. For poets and politicians, words are power. For some, money is power. For most of Earth__ history, weaponry and resources have constituted power. My grandfather always told me__nd I believed for many years__hat knowledge was power. But the funny thing about power is that no matter what you think it is, or how much you think you have, it__ the people above and all around you who get the final say.