There is a famous fable that says that once there was a frog very full of itself that despised a frog with much disdain for considering it little for her; however, later this same frog needed the help of the frog. With great humility, he was forced to apologise to the frog and assume that he was but any other amphibian.
What happened to the famous frog of this fable is what happens to many people or what can happen to any of us at some point in our lives, some people are so used to not being humble in their lives that they don’t even bother to do it. hide this feature, but that can eventually change.
- As always when we try to define something in the simplest way possible.
- We will reuse the dictionary.
- In this case the Portuguese dictionary says that humility has the merit of being aware of its weaknesses and limitations.
According to this definition, being humble opposes vain pride and has to do with self-love and individual dignity, at a time when the frog of fable decides to despise the frog because it considers it ugly, always with an arrogant attitude of superiority, is proud and vain.
In this sense, boastful behavior and self-righteousness do not define people as humble – it’s about understanding who we are without having to remind others all the time, brag, and exalt ourselves.
Humility is both a quality and a behavior that puts us before others, so we can say that humility can be practiced in any action we undertake, we do so, for example, in these situations:
In view of all that has been said, humility is so precious that those who succeed will always remember how to maintain it, because you will have been able to regain harmony and inner peace, and he too was able to move away from vanity. and material attachment to things.
The butterfly will always remember that it was a larvae because it knows that it can fall at some point in its flight and then it will understand that it is not the same to be humble and have low self-esteem: the humility that overflows is very nice when you know what the limits we have are, because otherwise we can hurt ourselves.
Does humility allow us to improve, be more loving and fraternal with ourselves and others, find more authentic people who truly love us, value the effort to achieve what makes us happy, escape the traps of ego?