Are you a follower or a leader?

Follower or Leader

I think there comes a time in any parent's life that they have to sit down and
have that conversation with their child about being a leader and not a follower.
My son runs into the room with a single glove on trying to be like Michael
Jackson. I must admit, he has some of those dance moves down to a science.
He holds his basketball in his hands and swears he's Lebron. He goes hard in
the paint and dunks over whatever smaller objects he finds in his room to tower
over on his little tikes basketball goal.
Is that him being a follower?
At school, on occasion, he may get in trouble for trying and doing things that
he knows are wrong just to be part of the "in crowd". I understand it! It's a
part of growing up. That's the growing pains of a child. We all went through
it.
But I've come to realize in life that sometimes you have to be a follower:
You have to follow the rules
You have to follow directions.
You have to follow someone's lead from time to time.
So I don't mind that my son wants to be like MJ, Lebron or his Dad.
I just pray that he realizes as he gets older that he has to be the Best form of
himself that he can be! Eventually he has to find a space in that little chest,
in that great big heart of his to know that he has to push out greatness that
the world has never seen by just being who he is!
Who's lead will you follow? When the time comes, what kinda leader will you be?