A president is a person who presides.
To preside is to exercise management or control; or to occupy a position as an instrumentalist.
Today is Presidents' Day.
Preside over your life.
Elect yourself the president.
I think presidents always fascinated me not because they controlled the lives of others, but because they controlled their own lives. As a child, that seemed to be an amazing potential experience.
I am older now and realize that such a sentiment is naive on many levels. To blame the president for your reality is just as misplaced as to praise him.
And even if you are not the president, and simply preside over your perception, ask yourself: who is the I seeing through the eye? Or is it the eye seeing through the I?
The president is the chief executive.
Someone else makes the laws.
A president makes sure they happen.
To preside is to exercise management or control; or to occupy a position as an instrumentalist.
Today is Presidents' Day.
Preside over your life.
Elect yourself the president.
I think presidents always fascinated me not because they controlled the lives of others, but because they controlled their own lives. As a child, that seemed to be an amazing potential experience.
I am older now and realize that such a sentiment is naive on many levels. To blame the president for your reality is just as misplaced as to praise him.
And even if you are not the president, and simply preside over your perception, ask yourself: who is the I seeing through the eye? Or is it the eye seeing through the I?
The president is the chief executive.
Someone else makes the laws.
A president makes sure they happen.
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