THE MIDDLE-MAN EFFECT.
Being grateful for where you are not (a place worse than where you are), existing where you are, hopeful of where you could be (a place better than were you are) - that’s THE MIDDLE-MAN EFFECT.
We all got to earth the same way and ended up at random spectra of life. Some people give up, not wanting to be here. Yet most still live on, even in more dire situations. The Middle-Man Effect is an innate condition human beings experience at every point in their lives - that gives hope. You’ll never met a person who’s the lowest on earth in every metric, there’s always someone worse off. Someone who’s life makes you grateful and appreciate whatever circumstance you face or go through in your own life. So also, you cannot meet the person who’s at the top of the world in every metric, there’s also someone above them who’s already living a life they hope for. This person’s life keeps you humble and hopeful of a better future were you step into that echelon.
There’s no end to this effect, no matter how high you climb, there’s someone higher and no matter how low you get, there’s someone lower. This effect should make you stay grateful for what you have and hopeful for more.
Life is super competitive but it shouldn’t be an external competition. The Middle-Man Effect keeps everybody in constant competition, people who climb higher grow more desire to keep climbing, they stay in the game. People who fall off, get lower but have the comfort of those beneath them, so they stay in the game hopeful their time will come.
Everybody wants to get to the top, each level you climb that takes you higher, someone falls there that brings them lower. There’s no satisfaction. There’s no highest point where you get to tear the ribbon; it’s never ending. Either way you go - up or down - there’s no finish line. Competition is what makes life interesting, it helps humanity expand beyond its “boundaries”. That you have things (knowledge, skills, resources, connections, access to places, wisdom) others don’t have but desire to. Without the scarcity and difficulty to have these things, they won’t be worth having.
The game is rigged; all winners are losers and all the losers are winners to some people. The only way to win is to accept victory or to lose is to accept defeat. The beautiful thing about life is that it gives you that power. The game of life is unique to each player, with different rules and objectives. But the man before us made his own rules and objectives, law. So we get stuck in a rat race chasing another man’s objectives living by his rules. The power to draw the checked boxes of black and white is within you. Get drawing - create your finish line. Where you are number 1. And if you get tired of where you are, you could always draw again. Only you get to decide, the external pressure is just noise.
Life is about the simple things. The feeling, I agree could be different but it’s still the same. Love is love, fear is fear, joy is joy, hunger is hunger, happiness is happiness, sadness is sadness, loss is loss, respect is respect, power is power. What ever echelon, it’s only scalable.
Life is indeed about the simple things.
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