While one congratulates
another for their prosperity, he/ she consciously dislike it because he/ she
fears for his/ her own future or success. For instance, when the San Antonio
Spurs won the NBA championship, they were congratulated by their rival team,
Miami Heat. It is evident that the Miami Heat had congratulated them but also
had resented the fact that they had lost such an important game. However, they
still decide to praise the Spurs, for they were hard working and good at
basketball. It is also logical edicacy and mannerly to do so. Furthermore, it
is known that the Miami Heat will strive to win the next championship.
Therefore, this ties in with the idea that "the concept of success is a
source of confusion" and how one may be rejoicing while interpreting it as
a threat and a personal side note to achieve the same success as the other did.
That is why it can be 'confusing' and can go either way in that someone can
feel happiness and enviness at the same time.
When one sees the
success of people far from their field or themselves, he/ she seems indifferent
and doesn’t care about it because it personally doesn't affect him/ her.
In a way, this is why mankind can be called selfish because everyone in the
world is trying to make it on their own and they apparently don’t have the time
to congratulate another person's prosperity. When something good happens
to someone, such as someone winning a Nobel Prize, the people far away- such as
Korea, Africa, or anywhere else- they don't really care for they have their own
things to attend to, They would blatantly say' well good for him' and just
carry on. If anything, they would only be affected in a negative way because
they may envy the winner. As a result, success has a two- way effect in that one
may be happy for another while concurrently envying or despising the success of
another.
When one generally succeeds in
life, someone else who hadn't may be happy for him/ her but wouldn't be genuine
about it because they themselves would want to feel and achieve the same thing.
Also, when one irrelevant to another person succeeds, he/ she wouldn't care for
the prosperity of this person because he is distant and has no effect on the
other person. Overall, Mead's argument was sound and true in the general aspect
of the world.
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