It is better to perform one's own duties imperfectly than to master the duties of another. By fulfilling the obligations he is born with, a person never comes to grief. No one should abandon duties because he sees defects in them. The notion of 'station in life' comes largely from the Confucian hierarchic system. If one does not perform duty to one whom the duty is due, one becomes a thief of the duty.
Proper fitting is achieved When one wears one's own dress.
African Traditional Relgions. Let him not despise what he has received, nor should he live envying the gains of others. The disciple who envies the gains of others does not attain concentration. Though receiving but little, if a disciple does not despise his own gains, even the gods praise such a one who is pure in livelihood and is not slothful. African Traditional Religions.