Monday, March 31, 2008

HUMILITY...A VIRTUE LONG GONE.......IS IT?....I HOPE STILL...

Life begins when we understand the transience and fragility of it……and how we should make maximum use of your mortal years so that we get rid of that incomplete feeling in our souls.ive always felt a waiting, a gap, a missing piece in the puzzle called life. Started questioning my existence long back, and the fact that no one understood the turmoil inside only made me more of a loner. Since then I’ve always been watching people and life from the outside. Feel that my purpose here is so temporary…that this is not where I am supposed to be…this life feels like a railway platform and I am sitting with my baggage………waiting……..waiting….for my train to come. The one I’m meant to board………till then im just ‘chasing cars in my head’……..

In the past few days I’ve met so many people. And one commonality I noticed…….a marked lack of humility……..don’t know why but it’s a quality ive always felt as endearing as chivalry in a male. have people really lost connect with the real virtues of life? Or is it just me living in a wrong time.Dont know why but have always admired people….real people………men and women of honor……no half measures…..pure souls who don’t compromise on their virtue……… a man is a man only when he learns the lesson of humility. No matter how big he becomes he always has scope to grow….the benchmark is ever elastic…..and as fathomless as the universe………..arrogance is a fool’s solution of a cover up of his insecurities.

Could never love or admire one who is arrogant…………and doesn’t feel as inconsequential and small as a grain of sand at some point of his life.………always feel that no matter what we become we will never get big enough.Dont confuse this with insatiable appetite for success…………its on the contrary being at rest with your inadequacies and trying to overcome them all the time. Met very few men I can look upto…very few men who are kind……..patient………..loving ……..and most of all giving………..

I have yet to meet one who loves with a love that can be bigger than himself………and has it in himself to accept his inadequacies….and that the universe is so much bigger than all of us……even though it is in fact us…..and more importantly submit himself totally……without condition…


PS:- might sound insane to some people………but there is a certain irrefutable logic in what I say……..that is if you are open minded enough to see what I mean.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Humility is there in many but sometimes when it is taken advantage of, for example, when the person is pushed down and the person does not get what he/she deserves due to the humility, whereas someone else who is not worth to come in front of others gets the credit due to the flashy display and the confidence that is not really there...Then that former person will change to become the confident person (Or as seen by others, lack of humility) and work to get the recognition that is duly his/hers. This can also be called as marketing since as the popular saying goes...If you don't love yourself, then who will love you?
When saying that arrogance is a fool’s solution of a cover up of his insecurities, a better solution is still to be seen by them :)
About the feeling that everything presently in this life is just something temporary and waiting for something else (The train)...I feel that the trains are coming but we are too busy chasing cars in our head that we miss out the trains.

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CRD said...

humility i think exists in a lot of people. but as time passes they kinds start looking at it as a futile virtue. look at the fast paced life around us. everyone's thinking abt himself/herself. i kinda agree with anonymous that humility is perceived as folly as dumbness by today's world. i have first hand experience.

ive been consciously trying to be more street-smart. or mebbe put on a fake front of an arrogant person, just to warn people who can be a threat to back off.u may say im weak in doin so, but i think people who survive in their own way are the ones who're strong. im not a complete arrogant brat, but i try my best not to go out of my way in being humble and chivalrous. the world's a bad place dear.

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