Luke 7:31-35
‘To what then will I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another, “We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;
we wailed, and you did not weep.”
For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, “He has a demon”; the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!” Nevertheless, wisdom is vindicated by all her children.’

I wonder where I fit in this scenario...

Do I look at others' response to something I do and stick my lower lip out in disappointment if their actions are not a recognition or affirmation of my "lead"?

Jesus reminds me that the most powerful ones who have communicated God's Truth were misunderstood and reviled and put to death by the ones who MOST needed to hear their message. I have been reminded, also, by Rabbi Edwin Friedman, that when you experience sabotage, it is an indication that you are leading in a way that promotes necessary change with respect to what is TRUE. That is probably because what a group most needs to hear and see is precisely that to which they are deaf and blind.

It's not easy to follow the path set by John or Jesus, is it? But wouldn't you rather be with them and be unpopular than be without them and be "liked" by the status quo?