Your status as a human being may not ever change until you actually begin to understand that a change of status has nothing to do with what you have or what you own.
In fact, the more you keep thinking that your status is determined by what you have, the less you will become because things are fast changing and the new becomee old. The moment you buy something, the value reduces and it cost you more to put it back into the market. The more you keep trying to have things, the lesser in status you begin to become.
Who you really are is not in anything that you have achieved in this life or anything that you have accrued. Rather who you are is... "The purpose that you have fulfilled according to what the Creator has designed for you."
And so life in itself cannot be really measured by the abundance of the things that a person has. But this is usually the mistake a lot of people make because when you see a rich person, you want to check. Check out his car. Check out his wristwatch. Check out clothes he's wearing. And this is how to define that this person is rich according to worldly standards.
However, looking at the flipside, the person who is actually rich is the person who is satisfied with what he has, what he is doing and even willing to give out even in the time of having little.
The more people try to show that they are rich the poorer they become and the reason is that there are actually people who have invested in things that make people look rich and that is where your riches will keep going to in order to have what rich people have just so you can be seen as rich.
Those things like cars and cloths and houses are utilities to the rich, not futile efforts to impress. They need a car, hence they bought it for its use. You got yours to show you can, you wasted money.
Some people coin this to be much like faking it until you make it but do you really have to fake something you are not? Wouldn't that be deception? Wouldn't it be that you are lying in order to win people's attention?
Have you considered also that whenever you are in your fake status, you are actually reducing yourself to bread? And so rather than fake it till you make it, why not work it till you make it? Your status will meet you at your point of success.
So instead of pursuing what other people have and using that to define you, pursue you and then define society.
All right, it's important to understand again that the life of a man does not consist in the abundance of the things that he has and so the more you understand that it is not by things that are measured but by fulfilling the purpose for which you were actually called for in the first place.
Daily positioning yourself to fulfill your purpose becomes very important and putting yourself as the light for others to follow is quite as importsnt as you are important.