I cannot control what anyone else thinks and someone else thinking they are more "powerful" (however that floats their boat) than I am does not mean that they are and, even if they are, I can only deal with my feeling that I am less powerful, what that means to me. I cannot know what another thinks; if they think they are more powerful or not and what that does for them, etc. It's too hard to figure out what I think and feel and what I want to do about it that I don't really have the time or energy to worry about what another person thinks and feels and might want to do about it. It's not really a two-person "game", I only have myself I can manipulate and no one else can take my place; I'm sealed into this body :-)