What is best: inherent power or granted power?
When I was a child I was given the role of playing David in a school production of David and Goliath.
I was 6 years old and probably the smallest person in the school. I stood in the assembly hall, armed with a catapult and a piece of plasticine. I shot it across the hall to kill the giant and I hit the headmaster right in the eye.
At my young age I had been granted power and given a weapon to use and in effect I killed the giant.
I carried this granted power around with me for many years. I believed I could fight anyone no matter how.big they were and I hat I would win. I was wrong of course because I got the $#%^ kicked out of me on many occasions but I still felt this power within myself that I had been granted and I still do have to a certain extent.
My power isn't inherent by any means and to a large degree it is an illusion but nevertheless it has given me the courage (or stupidity) to confront people in higher positions than myself and to show them no fear. I believe I will possess this for ever.
So what is best; inherent or granted power?