Never mind the cringe-worthy pun, although it does put things into perspective. Perhaps, leadership isn't always that straightforward. Off the charts, it is often an experience that you can only embrace first-hand but when asked to pen your learning experiences down in words, the only sensible thoughts seem to be cheesy lines that might very well be akin to the aforementioned pun. As distasteful as I find the need to classify leadership into words, it is equally likely that I'm avoiding the need for retrospection and introspective review of what I have done, and likewise failed to do.

It is difficult to deconstruct your character at your whim and fancy, more so if it is coming from within. It would be much more convenient to seek approval from someone else and get comments from a third-party, an individual eye-witness to this whole leadership journey but of course that wouldn't seal the deal. It is the process of meta-cognizing that makes you search deep and coerces you to come face to face with reality--that you are often less accomplished then you think you are.

Maybe then pride has always been a facade to cover up my foolishness, dusted heavily with luck and saddled with outright steadfastness as a blockade to any weaknesses. To require that I write something which defines me as a leader tears this pride away and bears my naked soul for inspection.

But that's not to soul you wouldn't find anything incriminating. I just need to dig deeper.

So in we go then, for the end of the journey is only the hardest because it is the entire process all over again.