Power Struggles

In every aspect of life, someone holds power. In families, church organizations, and even college apartments :) But it may not be one person in charge of everything, sometimes that power is divided among individuals within the organization and they are each given power over certain things. Like the church for example; the ward Young Women President holds the power in the young women organization, but the Bishop is the over-arching leader over her and the other auxiliary presidents. The Stake President is over the stake's Bishops and then the line proceeds to follow the line of Area Seventy, the Quorum of the Twelve, and finally the Prophet, who we all know holds all the power over the whole church. In class we had an experiment to see what would happen if our power source (our professor) was removed from the classroom environment. As class started there was a simple note on the board that said to start class with a prayer, and have a discussion on power in the family. That was it. The teacher came in and took a seat in one of the desks, and it became clear to the rest of us that he wasn't planning on participating in today's lecture. One girl then stood up and said she would offer a prayer, and then after the prayer, she started off the discussion with asking what we thought of power's role in the family. We started to have a discussion, but only about five minutes in, it was made known who was going to talk and comment and direct the conversation the whole time. And as the discussion drew on, the more those same individuals took control and the more the rest of us tuned out.  Our teacher finally got up and began to illustrate to us what happened in this experiment and how this happens in all aspects of daily life. We can't function without power. Even when power is removed, another source is found, and it reemerges. Power isn't a bad thing, it's just important to establish who has power and control of certain things in certain aspects, and evenly distribute it so that we don't end up in a sort of dictated marriage.