First year as a big politician

A good leader is hard to come by, but great leaders are like precious gems, at the risk of being lost or stolen. Protect the ones you like and respect with all the integrity you have, for if they feel their skills talents and honesty are not appreciated, they will often avail their services elsewhere where they are acknowledged.

It was perhaps not surprising then that Sudan's first year at the job was such a whirlwind. Whereas he had expected to be bombarded with requests for personal favor, attempts to get him to flex the rule of law, and perhaps even attempts at getting him into some large 'project' or another, in reality every single civilian he met praised him for his integrity honesty and patience, and explained often requested him to be more patient with the nature of political system in the country, and that thins would be alright. It is worth the trouble, what you are doing, they said, you might come up with problems that will test your resolve and integrity, please don't fall for them consider them tests put forward to us by you and you will doubly succeed  in those. They'd go on and on about the goodness of the various virtues he had, other examples of great leaders from the past or from mythology, and how well-loved and respected they still were. The implication being, you will be up there too if you keep up at your project.

He wasn't worried, Sudan, but he was starting to get real competition from newer generation of elected leaders. There was this particular person, who had spent a long time as a high-powered wall-street trader or quant or one of those things they do finance-wise, who was out there after anyone's back who might even have remote indirect financial interest in any of the national projects. Of course it was easy for him to say, probably with millions hundreds of millions in his bank accounts from his banking days. It was good though, that he was keeping everyone honest, Sudan was just afraid that man wasn't the ideal leader he just seemed to have read a template for becoming a Nepali politician and was going from the script, quite well really, but something seemed to lack within him. He couldn't identify what it was, but there was something off. In any case, he was the kind of person Sudan found politically threatening, but that was for the future, he was just an upstart and posed no real danger in the short term. He had just been elected, got to get down to the more essentials first instead of worrying about political longevity.