Walking down the road, I cross many different turns and keep walking. And, of course, I eventually go down one of the turns. In my mind, no one else is going the same way I'm going. But, if truly no one else is going my way, there wouldn't be such a nice path to go down.

The famous poem about taking the road less traveled is a polite way of saying you're a rebel. The rebelliousness only happens because more people think another way--not that you are truly different from everyone else. Everyone wants to be a rebel. Rebels have great reasons for their actions: they are fighting for what they feel is right, and they are fighting the establishment.

The establishment is the man.

No one wants to be put down by the man. And the man is anyone who doesn't believe the same as the rebels do. Anyone who is perceived to have more favor or power than they do. Even if that perceived power isn't real power.

The rebels are always the scrappy ones. For a few years, Gonzaga was the established rebel (interesting paradox, by the way) in the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament. We like to see the man fall on his ass.

In the original Star Wars trilogy, the rebels were the heroes. In the recent prequel trilogy, the people who become the rebels in the original are the man--which could be why the Dark Side is much more interesting than the Jedi.

For the World Series this year, I would like to see the Cubs and Red Sox vie for the crown. This way one of them will break the curse or string of really bad luck they've been suffering through for years. They have to beat the man to get a chance to fight another rebel and become the man.

Ask anyone, and they'll tell you who the man is to them. It's personal. And it doesn't necessarily stay constant.

Right now, the United States is the man to most of the rest of the world. I don't really like being the man in this case--since I don't agree with the man in charge of the man. I'm being pulled along the man's pant leg like sticky lent because I'm part of this country. I have a feeling a lot of the rest of the man's body isn't too happy with the man on top.

The real problem with the man is his arrogance.

The reason people feel the man puts them down is because the man is controlling the action. And the man isn't always the smartest person in the room--he is merely the most powerful. The man doesn't always have the best plan--but his plan gets pushed through. The man doesn't look out for everyone, he looks out for number one. And the man is number one.

There was a man in charge of California. A lot of people in California didn't agree with the man. And now that man is no longer the man. There's a different man now.

It can happen like that. Change comes in the blink of an eye. Yesterday's rebel becomes today's man. And this is what people must understand. Nothing is constant. Nothing will always stay the same.

Just because you're not the man doesn't mean you can't affect change.

And just because you become the man doesn't mean you're right.

It just means you're the man now. And you should watch out for all those rebels looking to take down the man.

Matt Worley is a rebel. But sometimes he's the man, too.