Who's on top?

Being on top - or who has the upper hand - or who is in an advantageous position is something that most if not all of us constantly dwell upon. Be it politics, sports, workplace, home, or any place that has a possibility for one-upmanship. It is an inherent animal instinct that resides within all of us consciously or subconsciously. It’s beyond just survival of the fittest to the extreme of being rearing of the unfit for self gratification if I can put it in that way.

Look around you, you try and put someone down who is going to become your equal, you take undue advantage of someone’s financial/professional/emotional position to indulge in self proclaimed superiority. Of course in this great ecosystem you may not be at the top because you also are prey to someone else’s self proclaimed superiority.

So what do you do? Bide your time mostly so that you grow in superiority and move higher up in the superiority ecosystem. Maybe you’ll have more people now to take advantage off and show them who’s on top, and lesser people who you will bend down to accept your inferiority. And this up-down behavior we will do all our lives till the time we die and yet hope in spite of all our frailties that we reach the top.