The truth about leadership!!

For the past few weeks I've been at SLT (School of Leadership Training). It's an Intervarsity Christian Fellowship camp for mainly for those who will be in leadership with IVCF on their college campuses. It was a really good experience for me but it's also been on of the hardest things I've done. We had a lot of things thrown at us in the weeks that I was there. We discussed leadership, racial reconciliation, being a servant, cross-cultural issues, sexuality, evangelism, and I could go on and on.
One of the days, I went to a seminar on developing new leaders and coming out of it I was excited but also very sad and maybe even a little mad. I was reflecting back on my experiences with leadership and realized somethings. It seems as though our country both secular and christian glorify leadership as if it's glamorous and great. It's like a new pop culture; there are efven tons of books on it. If you just typed in leadership in your internet search engine I'm sure you'd get tons of results on resources. It's probably a multi-million dollar industry. You can even go to week long seminars. Of all the leadership training I've had, never have I heard anything about how difficult it is. I've never heard anyone say that it's the hardest thing you'll probably ever do in life.
In my leadership experiences I've been: depressed, sad, lonely, frustrated, rejected, laughed at, backstabbed, talk about behind my back. Not to mention that you can't satisfy everyone, you have to work really hard while everyone else is having fun. You're always on because people are looking to you for direction. I probably could go on. Things never seem to go your way.
I read a book by John C. Maxwell about leadership and in it he said something to the effect of "As a leader you need to touch a persons heart before you ask for their hand." The idea behind it is that people don't follow programs. For the most part they follow people who inspire them. That is single handedly one of the most difficult things to do.
Reading all of the books and going to classes about leadership,it always seemed like a noble task and that if done right you can essentially change the world. I've been through studies on the book of Nehemiah and how he's lead people. Even in those ones I didn't hear much about how difficult leadership is.
All my life people have said that I'm going to be a great leader. I used to be flattered by that comment. Now when I hear it I just want to yell at the top of my lungs, "Thanks a lot but you don't have to keep pointing that out."
I know that this is what God has for me. But sometimes it's more like a burden to bear than a thing to be attained. I thank God for this tremendous call to such a great task. But I just want to give an objective opinion. Leadership isn't always great like the world thinks it is. It's really difficult and those who are called to it shouldn't take the calling lightly.