There's moments in life where things just make you feel inferior. There are some people that only come by these moments here and there. Some people have them more than those people. And then there's the people who just rake in the moments of inferiority. The poor often experience it more than the rich. The ugly more than the attractive. The unlucky for sure. There's also different kinds of personalities and environments too. Some environments promote stoicism and that helps against the creeping inferiority. Other environments compound the idea that you are inferior and some are the chief reason for this feeling. When does the person breakdown? At what moment in their life does the creeping inferiority begin to chip away at them? When does it break them? Who can resist it most and is it conquerable?
Inferiority is benchmarking. It's based on relativity. You're worse than that because of this. That is better than you because of this. It takes so much work to resist that. SO MUCH WORK.
Sometimes it's the persons themselves who create the inferiority complex. Because they do or do not do something. The easiest way through life is hard. It's not the hardest way through life though.
I'm just going to end.
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Do not forget to mention that the superiority complex stems from an inferior complex. If the rich, attractive, lucky upper class men appear to be happy, we must remember that well, 1) they have more reason to be, they are blessed and 2) it is only an appearance. Of course, knowing for sure is something we'll never be able to answer.
Leading psychologists have discovered that feigning happiness leads to an authentic happiness of sorts. In short, humans are able to trick themselves into being happy. I liken this happiness to Splenda and sugar; both are sweet but not the same.
Many agree, adversity forms the essence of our being. How we each choose to handle our imperfections and "faults" denotes who we are as people. I believe Orson Scott Card when he wrote “Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
Maybe stoicism is not a way to endure tribulation with optimism, but a way to conceal tribulation with silence.
I struggle with this almost every day. It is only at RHS that I ever deal with this. I love my co-workers and have good fellowship with my brothers in the church. I hate the gossip, I hate the lies, I hate the eyeservants, I hate the slander, and I hate that people would exchange single identity for duplicity. And I have to chuckle to myself when people call others fake, because duplicity is a trait and not an act.
I pray every day that this is just a passing phase on the road to self-actualization.
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