Being humble in life makes us great people

Being humble is not synonymous with weakness. Humility is a concept that is very underestimated in Western culture, and above all so much misunderstood and misinterpreted. If you think about it, even in common language we use the word humility to define something poor, miserable.

A humble lunch is an impromptu meal with what you have in the moment. A humble house is an essential, small home. Humility that refers to the human soul, however, has nothing to do with poverty and at the same time has nothing to do with modesty.

Being humble, an arrogant heart does not see beauty

If we get help from etymology, we discover that humility has a strong connection with the earth, coincidentally, the same root is used for man (homo), as if to say that actually human beings are linked to the ground. Man is then a fertile land that needs to be cultivated, someone who takes care of it.

It is precisely here that the turning point takes place, being humble means giving light to one’s humanity through openness and encounter with others. We can be the person we are today only thanks to the presence of others in our life. Without them, we would be nobody, we could never be alone enough with ourselves to be happy.

If you keep a proud and arrogant heart, you end up closing in on yourself and developing a pessimistic view, noticing around you only garbage and trash to be thrown away. Live the envy of other people, the perennial anger for what they have and what you do not possess.

You focus on what is bad, you perceive a false reality in which you feel threatened by the world and you cannot find what is beautiful and good. You try to solve your problems by taking full responsibility and going by attempts without reflection, promptly aggravating the situation you live in.

To persist in wanting to be perfect and to live in the conquest of the first place leads to not living. You remain devoid of stimuli because it is difficult to find something that moves the soul, that amazes, everything goes out in the flatness and there is neither sharing nor movement.

Learn to practice humility

Being humble in life does not therefore mean feeling inferior, nor having a passive and submissive attitude. It is not the same as silently undergoing the strength of those who want to step on us, but it means opening the window of the heart to look out on a world to discover and that leaves you amazed, breathless, thanks to its surprises hidden among the simplest things.

How many mistakes have you made in your life? See the world with the eyes of a child, choose the path of humility to reach your frailties and limitations. You will take over new humanity that will have a hunger for growth and a desire to improve itself.

You will discover that there is something to learn from everyone, that each person has something good to offer because humility teaches you to be rich in little, to seek happiness in the essential and not in great things.

And if someone is hostile towards you, be humble, you will only be offended if you give them permission to do so. Understanding what the other is experiencing will help you stay in touch with who you are, don’t worry about him, but you can worry about him.

I know it sounds utopian, but wouldn’t it be a better world if everyone took care of the person next to them, especially when he is overwhelmed by anger, anger, and hatred? This is what Gandhi did, following the philosophy of non-violence and love for the enemy.

Finally, he brings attention to what you already have and feel a grateful person. it is the desire to possess that makes you feel bad because it distracts attention from what you already have, which however is often considered to be taken for granted.

The highest expression of humility is being able to express gratitude for everything, even the smallest. Doing this teaches you to restore value to the pieces that color existence and without which the work of art called life would not exist.

Being a humble person does not involve being oppressed or being trampled on. On the contrary, it allows you to rediscover your humanity with all its limitations and frailties, and then enrich yourself, grow and improve yourself thanks to the encounter with the other person. Abandon pride, open yourself to humility, and feel grateful to what surrounds you to be amazed by the beauty that resides in everything.