Why Despite You Doing Your Best, People Don’t Appreciate You
Masses don’t like excellent things
Many people who suggest you do your best and keep improving are offended when you make a move and upgrade. When we were inside the four walls of our educational institution we not only had a system of learning and assessment but a social structure where we used to know about our position in a success hierarchy. That system used to fulfill our existential and self-esteem void we were free from figuring out our worth on our own.
When we enter real life no system does this, if you are happy with the lifestyle you have that may not stand with the one millionaires have, no one is going to mock you about the same, and at the same time if you want to live a life full of luxurious no one is going to appreciate you either. This sounds interesting and appropriate, but the void that screams for attention and acknowledgment always keeps bothering us.
In response to that tendency of ours, we usually fall for social dependency, we want someone else to acknowledge our success and validate it for the sake of our feeling of self-worth. People can take that responsibility but there’s a condition, people don’t like terrible things, you may think what’s wrong with that but here’s a catch, they don’t appreciate excellent things and personalities either.
They always want average; they want someone who is good in everything but should not be a shining star in anything. If he becomes exceptional or achieves excellent things people will always mock them down.
They do so because they are insecure about themselves, as they always fulfill those purpose voids with the validations given by the people who are exactly like them. When a group of people who are insecure and average in their own have an opportunity to choose a winner, they will always choose the one who is excellently average in everything.
So if you are working hard to get the approval of the masses then you have to make your target for becoming an average; person who can do a lot of things but isn’t an expert in any of them. And if you want to fulfill that void to its actual depth and seek self-worth that is real, you need to figure out your calling and need to start following the path that is completely yours.
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