The Follower

If it is your place to lead, lead. If it is your place to follow, follow. Do not follow blindly, but follow nonetheless. If the follower leads, the path is a circle unto itself. What purpose is there in that other than to stay lost? Be not presumptuous about your place. It is your place and it does not make you less than. But should you forget your place, cry not for being culled down, for that too, is your place. Suffer with humility and learn to follow well. Great leaders are first great followers. An army is not built on the shoulders of leaders but on the backs of followers. Follow well, and the day is yours. Follow well, and you will lead well, when your time is come.