When Humility Kicks In

 

HOW many of us grew up through childhood without being oriented and molded to grow as a person in HUMILITY?  As early as our pre-school age, WHEN we play with neighbors and friends, our parents kept reminding us about HUMILITY, LIKE being magnanimous WHEN winning games or contests.  LIKE WHEN you start to becoming successful, always manifest that HUMILITY up front because you WON'T be the person now had you NOT been mentored and molded by your parents to be HUMBLE.  BUT alas, in this topsy-turvy world, HOW far can HUMILITY go???

As competition is very tight in life, even during our school days, the teacher WON'T be holding constantly a calculator to compute each of your verbalized academic performance and your boss at the workplace is NOT YET an 'AI' entity WHO keeps track of your work performances based on a prescripted algorithm, right?  Instead, more often, the tipping point would normally favor someone WHO is HUMBLE NOT in a laidback stance.  HOW can you go up the corporate ladder if you remain as meek as a lamb???

True, I buy back that motto 'WORK HARD, STAY HUMBLE' BUT WHAT IF you have a colleague eyeing for a juicy plum job promotion WHICH you yourself is angling as well?  WHAT IF he is that aggressive and highly profiled person WHO DOESN'T let a minute past without showing off his wares, impressing the key people around.  WHEREAS you yourself?  Probably you are seated in one corner of the room, so timid, so meek and existing in an eerie silence.  DO we think the latter will be the top fav for job promotion???

YES, studies show that there are multiple problems with HUMILITY itself.  And I'll barely scratch the surface here by starting off with the fact that in life, it is necessary for us to think about ourselves, at least sometimes.  HUMILITY is NOT the same thing as NOT thinking about yourself.  And in the labyrinth of words, pitifully, HUMILITY is sometimes mixed up with HUMILIATION.  NO sirrrrrrrs, those 2 words are worlds apart.  Blame it on semantics!!!

Our takeaway:  So, if HUMILITY is NOT the same thing as NOT thinking about yourself, OR humilation OR inaccessibility to objective truth, WHAT IS IT?  So, I'd like to suggest that humility is a proper assessment of oneself  BUT this definition does create its own difficulty as some of us have grown up viewing ourselves as 'PRETTY GOOD', tending to underemphasize our shortfalls in life.  BUT think about it, HUMILITY should never be treated as either just BLACK or WHITE😌😌😌