> True, but there's a huge fucking difference Calm down, take a breather, no need to curse. I'd still understand what you're saying without it. > not being o

> True, but there's a huge fucking difference Calm down, take a breather, no need to curse. I'd still understand what you're saying without it. > not being on the highest step of the social ladder among the people you're hanging out with. I said nobody wants to be the lowest on the totem pole. Not that everyone has to be at the top. You said yourself: > I don't think I'm the highest-ranked among the people I generally talk to, but I'm perfectly comfortable in my group You see yourself as as existing in the middle. And you're fine with that it seems. But if someone saw themselves as existing at the bottom of their group, I guarantee they'd strive to change that. Climbing the ladder. Now, the top and the bottom of a group are relative to the person, but they exist and we as individuals orient ourselves to those points.