Once, a mentor for young chassidim, asked the following question:
“Who is higher, the person on the 5th rung of a ladder, or the 3rd?”
He continued to answer the question himself:
If the person on the 5th rung is descending while the one on the 3rd is ascending, then in truth the one that is lower is really higher.”
In life, it’s not about where you are but where you are going.