Superiority / Inferiority Complex

Lav Kumar Agrawal

This write-up is prepared based on my personal observations and minute analyses of people around me. 

There are two categories of people who are widely seen everywhere. These two sets of people are altogether different from each other in terms of behavior, attitude, thought, etc. They are as follows:

Suffering from superiority complex

Suffering from inferiority complex

I use the term “suffering” because the way people suffer during sickness, likewise, people engrossed in any form of complexities are severely sick individuals. Complexes in any form retard the natural flow of the mind, which can be termed an ailment.

Intellectual and economic reasons are the basic and fundamental driving forces of complexities. Those who are intellectually and economically sound suffer from superiority complex. People with weak intellects and economic resources suffer from inferiority complexes. Both put in their ultimate endeavor to hold their social stature by any means.

People are ignorant of the fact that the mind has a natural tendency to degrade itself. The animal instinct is dominant, and humanly thought is dormant. Hence, these complexities add fuel to the fire and drive the flow of the mind downwards, i.e., towards animality. There can be no other tragedy for human beings than to relegate themselves to the level of animality despite being in a human frame.

Those who are introverted in nature, simple in words, honest in action, and possess spirituality as an intrinsic quality, possess the strength to transcend the bondages of complexities. Hence, it is the duty of every rational person to rise above the complexities, or else one’s progress will be sealed forever.