Humility

 Humility


It takes humility to admit you are wrong. Owning failures is impossible for a prideful person. Failure to own your defeats leads you down a slippery slope. Blaming others for your faults will take you out of control of your own life. Why? Why would pride take you out of control? Because if you blame others for everything, you are saying that you have no impact on your life. You tell yourself that everything that has happened to YOU has been a result of someone else. As soon as you tell yourself that YOU are responsible, you will regain control.


I spent too long blaming everyone else. I was too proud. I lacked confidence and lacked humility. As I saw it, I was given a hand that I had not dealt. I was allowing others to choose my cards. When I made plays, others were responsible. I began to fall down a bad path. A path where I was unhappy and couldn’t quite figure out why. By not owning my life, I was putting my happiness in the hands of others. And frankly, others don’t care about your life as much as you. If it came down to it, they would pick themselves over you. It’s human instinct


Realizing this, I began to choose myself. I quit putting my fate in the hands of others. I swallowed my pride, gained confidence in myself, and became more humble. Being humble allows you to see things for how they are. Pent up pride inside will put a lens over every situation. If you are stuck up and full of yourself, you will always think “how does this impact me?” in every situation. You are “saying what can others do for me?” A humble person would ask what they can do to better themselves and influence others’ decisions. 


If you don’t like how somebody treats you, ask yourself what you can do better first. There is something you can do differently to change how people act toward you. You can change how the world is for you if you simply suck up your pride and improve yourself. It takes time to realize this. When you finally mature enough to realize this, you can look back at all the mistakes you made. I live with my mistakes everyday. I wish I could do things differently but I simply can’t. Those experiences happened so I can learn from them now.


If you are looking for reasons why you aren’t happy, choose humility. Humility allows you to be open to learning and acceptant of criticism. Improve yourself before you critique others.


~Thank you for reading. My goal is to help teach others ways to better themselves while doing the same for myself. This is The Exploration.~


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