When you, consciously or subliminally decided to let another decide your worth, you've given that person a great power over you, almost like one choosing your fate. As we have said, the core business, the really important life and death stuff, is often decided by people who make the least money, except in healthcare. The others are squeezed at a cut rate.
Consider, like our enemies, they become important to us, and to them we seek vindication, victory, to flaunt our little victories, to squash our stratagems into their side mirrors, willy-nilly.
Such as is said by Seneca, a man controlling himself has a fool for a master, and a man lead by the crowd is misled. Why even consider giving your enemy the emotional importance of these other?
Or a tougher row to keep weeded: As the Christian seeks to do in his or her lifetime, forgive the past, release the enmity towards their former enemies. In their literature, they are given the advice to be double good to their enemies, that it would be the best revenge, where others say the best revenge is just to live well.
Yet others: "the best revenge is to not be like them."
Do we estimate our own worth? Or do we put ourselves into an average? Whatever would be wrong with the average, notwithstanding that America is supposed to be loaded with exceptional human beings. Would you be special? And does that mean you perpetually stain your shirt at supper, or that read fast, or that you pick all the best online videos to put on playlist?
Which and how much?
And who are we allowing to decide our own self-worth?
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