There are many people who feel inferior while they are in public places and interact with others: other people’s job, clothes, physical fitness, beauty, and wealth. ‘I’m not right, I’m wrong, I don’t have that, I don’t have this, this is how I have become…’ There are many lamentations of inferiority. Similarly, some people feel they are better than others. Many people think ‘I am better than him/her or I am greater than them.’ There is no need for the above two thoughts. ‘He is as good as I am. I am neither worse nor better than him. I have the same skills as he has, and he has the same skills as me.’ We have to come to this kind of thinking and belief.
A sense of inferiority and superiority is unnecessary. On the contrary, there should be self-awareness. People, circumstances, and experiences sometimes try to devalue us. It is because of our shortcomings in their gaze. All we have to do is to fight against such attempts. For that, we must have an appreciation of ourselves. We determine our value, not anyone else. Take the case of a farmer. It is up to him to decide at what price he wants to sell the produce he has produced. He is the one who decides the price of the product. The fee will be added to the toil, pain, and cost he incurred in bringing it to sale. Whether he gets that price is a second matter. But the relevant thing is that he has fixed the price. The same is our case.
We set our prices. There’s something special about you that no one else has. There is something in you that no one else can take away from you. It is what makes you yourself. What makes me who I am is my value. And that’s my price. A price that others do not have. Or my value is when everyone else has their value and doesn’t. So don’t let anyone else fix your value. Don’t value yourself according to how others value you. How high is your price? Your price is what you set. If you think that’s all you are, then you are all that. If you think you’re worth that much, then you’re worth that much. Don’t give the decision to set your own price to anyone else. You don’t have to live by anyone’s price. See yourself as the greatest and the most valuable. Only then will you be able to recognize your potential.
