Daily Reprieve · July 2020

What Is Being Humbled?

It bugs me when people If you’re going to be humble, myself so. It is like say, “I feel humbled by the it has to come from you, not meditation – if you are truly efforts of….blah blah blah”. be triggered in you by a meditating, you cannot I feel they don’t really get realisation that someone recognise it as such. the idea of being humbled. else is living a much more worthwhile existence, (or Similarly, if I am being truly Mostly they’re humbled by just that they are strong in humble, I cannot say so, someone doing something adversity). Can’t they just because then I am claiming normal, something that they say thank you, or well done, something for myself, and should do anyway. It has and get on with things? am not being humble. become empty, a platitude. People don’t do selfless In some sort of conclusion Personally, I imagine I deeds so you can feel then, I am humbled by the might, if I think about it, humbled or so you will say pure beauty of the concept which I am doing, be that you feel humbled, so of genuine humility. humbled by the work of the shut up about it. white helmets in Syria When I see it in others, it risking their lives for others, Of course this is the mind of makes me long for by those who work for an alcoholic – to rage something more in myself Medicine sans Frontiers or against something pointless and makes me see the in refugee camps, by and inoffensive, to want to workings of a higher power someone standing up for take control of the word, of in the actions of others. And another at a risk to the concept of humility. when I hear someone say “I themselves. People whose am truly humbled……”, I actions tower over mine and It is important to us, we really do have to let it go… yet that is never their aim. have considered it and read of it and we strive for it and Anonymous. What do they mean by being let our higher power take “….truly humbled……” ourselves away so that we anyway? What is being may be truly humbled. humbled? But I am not truly humbled, never should consider

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