It's amusing and irritating when some people try to play a one-up game with me. I am not really into taking them on. I don't mean 'take on' as in put them down or anything. It's just that their game does not interest me nor is it something I aspire to win. It's a bit like them showing off they are going to be the CEO of Fluff and Vapid Co. when all I want to do is write poems at Books Ltd. It's fun to watch them preen at me as if I envy them their CEOship at the Fluff and Vapid. They will never understand my passion for writing poems as much as I will never understand their jubilation at their empty title. I don't expect them to 'get it' but the problem is when they expect me to bow to their (apparently) elevated status. That is what really riles them because I don't. They can't imagine why I am not enamoured by their power and why I don't grovel to gain their influence. It's no use pointing out that status does not impress me if it does not come with depth, dignity, intellect, excellence, or anything of intrinsic merit. Even a donkey can be given a crown (no offence to donkeys). Maybe it is knowing that they don't possess any internal remarkable qualities that triggers their insecurities and makes them clutch even more tightly at fancy titles. When people don’t recognize these, they must be forced to wonder if they appear as undazzling without as they are within!