Text 1: The principle life strategy is "upward mobility" toward the goal of "success."
Response 1: I always found the concept of success interesting. This concept is interesting because success to one person might mean something totally different to another. Here lies the true beauty of humanity - difference of opinion. All children are born into the world and given a perspective lens by their family. As the children grow up, they either maintain the same perspective lens that their family/friends have guided them towards, or they form their own, differing opinions. Upward mobility in America has always been to reach the top of the social/monetary ladder - "The American Dream." I urge people not to conform. I urge people to do what they love, not what they "feel" they should do in order to fit a certain standard. I believe true success is the ability to be honest with yourself concerning what you believe success is and to make this forever the primary step in any situation in life.
Text 2: One aspect of the way of Christ/Downward Mobility is indifference to honors. I believe to have indifference to honors is the crux of understanding the true meaning of the meaning of Downward Mobility.
Response 2: Indifference to honors says that "human dignity depends simply on being human, not on social status." This means that before we even begin living our lives, we have already succeeded. Life itself, alongside the talents we are given are true success stories. We become too engulfed in what society will tout us as, and not focused enough on the fact that we are actually here. We are quantified by salary, income, number of cars, GPA...etc. The fundamental aspect of human dignity id that all humans are equal in an unquantifiable phenomenon that is the miracle of life.
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