When you build something incredible from nothing and it begins to make sense, that’s when they arrive.
People who had nothing to do with its creation suddenly looking for leadership.
Not willing to start at the bottom.
Not willing to learn the small duties.
Not willing to carry the weight.
They want a chair near the top.
But the bottom chairs teach the lessons, integrity, patience, sacrifice, discipline, responsibility.
There is a reason the Entered Apprentice Degree comes before the Master Mason Degree.
Very few escape that truth.
Even with the rare exception, they usually carries some unseen deficiency.
Because those who skip the bottom never truly understand the foundation.
And when they take leadership they easily destroy what they never helped build.
What took years of sacrifice, time, money, labor, missed opportunities, showing up week after week, can be dismantle in a moment by them.
Leadership without apprenticeship is hollow.
And hollow men always leave a void behind them.
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