Western societies, seem to have far too often their priorities all wrong, of which, the crux of the problem is how much time, energy, and space is spent appreciating those that are the richest and the most powerful, as opposed to appreciating those that demonstrate good virtue and selflessness. It would seem that rich or poor, many people gravitate to admiring those who are super successful, in the mistaken belief, oftentimes, that those who are the best entrepreneurs, or athletes, or actors, are somehow the best people, as well, and that we should therefore listen attentively to what they have to say as if these are very wise personages that are worth our time to listen to.
Look, it has to be said, success has its own merits, but to somehow believe that the rich and well-placed deserve our admiration, without any real consideration as to who and what they honestly are, and how they got to the place that they are currently are at, is a mistake. Those then, that celebrate celebrities of all types, as akin to some sort of hero worship, are worshipping at the wrong temple. Rather, we would be far better served to concentrate our appreciation and our admiration upon those of great moral value, who provide us with important lessons that we should learn from, and encourage us to become strong moral agents of virtue because it is those who work for the true betterment of society, that are exhibiting high moral virtue for the benefit of that society.
What we do or do not respect, reflects fairly upon our own personality, and all those who respect power mainly because they wish for that sort of power for themselves, are not thinking correctly. Indeed, our objective in life, should not be to be rich and powerful, so that we can “boss” our way in society, so as to therefore receive accolades from those who need to appreciate us, but rather we need to drop those sorts of fantasies and pretensions and see such as being seriously misguided, in the recognition that what we should concentrate our efforts upon, are in the being of the best person that we can be with the objective of doing our fair part to help make society a better place for our participation in it.
All those who judge a person’s success primarily based upon the accouterments that a given person has are failing to understand that a person’s true success should be measured by how much or how little that they have done for others, along with the wisdom that they have so imparted not only by their deeds but by their words so spoken for the improvement and betterment of others. When we take an honest look at who and what we truly admire, oftentimes that person is someone very close to us, who has shown and provided to us, unconditional love, which we appreciate, because on our merits, we may not have deserved such, but they have been able to recognize the good and the value that we have within our character, which will, in due time and through our good effort, exhibit itself, through our virtuous deeds