That would be an existential matter

Different societies have awarded different status to different groups: hunters, fighters, acient families, priests, knights, fecund women. Increasingly, since 1776, status in the West has been awarded in relation to financial achievement… high status is thought by many (but freely admitted by few) to be one of the finest of earthly goods.

Status anxiety: A worry so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect...

If our position on the ladder is a matter of such concern, it is because our self-conception is so dependent upon what others make of us… we rely on signs of respect from the world to feel tolerable to ourselves.

Alain de Botton

The unexplored life is not worth living.

Socrates
Coward(s).

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Henry David Thoreau

Property, promiser of liberty, deliverer of slavery.

Tom Hodgkinson

“I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. Why muck and conceal one’s true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?”

Everett Ruess