Is Humility Strength And Evidence Of High Self Esteem? (By Lance Winslow)

Some would say that an achieved humble man has high self-esteem as he doesn't have to prove anything to anyone. Yes, I can see that point, although that's not the end of the story and it is hardly the beginning either. Not long ago, I was discussing all this with a fellow think tank type mind and they noted an old famous quote:

"Humility is not thinking less of oneself, but thinking of oneself less. Humility is strength not indecision."

Sure, on the surface that does sound like a well-spoken piece of wisdom, but on second thought; is it so? You see, I humbly disagree. How is humility strength? It can be deceptive, hiding one's abilities, I guess deception can be viewed as holding back knowledge and knowledge is power, therefore considered strength - of course, I quite certain that the maker of that quote wasn't thinking about it in that way.

Kids are definitely not humble, they are very self-centered, it's always I, I, I and it is always about them or they cry. Why? Simple, it is natural for them to be that way. We say they need to grow up if they live their life in the first person, by growing up we mean taught or learn to appropriate behavior. Humility is taught, it is learned, it is not natural, it is nurture, and that's fine, but it is our (societies') enforcement upon the individual.

There is nothing wrong with Ego, or I, nothing at all, it's natural and normal and actually first-person thinking, there is nothing wrong with Ayn Rand's Objectivism either. We often attach more character to the humble one, but why? You may not like John Mac Enroe or his behavior on the tennis court, but you also can't touch his skills with a ten-foot pole either. Who is right, it's his life, and people are free to act as they will, in the US we have free speech, which also means tooting one's own horn in self-promotion.

You may not like Donald Trump or Richard Branson for their brashness and perceived megalomaniac style behavior, but since you are not a billionaire who are you to judge? Those who are humble and great may make us feel better about ourselves, and the powers-that-be less threatened, but that doesn't make it a virtue, it is not.

We are told not to judge another man until we walk a mile in their shoes, but apparently it's okay to judge someone who is less humble - why? Simple, it is society's way of reinforcing a specific learned behavior - why? To make us all feel better about ourselves. However, if we were more comfortable in our own skin, we wouldn't be bothered by less-than-humble folks in the first place. Dare to debate?

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Your Footprint in the Sands of Time

Does anyone's life really matter? If you didn't do anything that was recognized, world-changing or life altering, will the world ever know that you existed? There is a process in the life cycle on Earth that is true for every living form from the minutest to the most sophisticated, the human. Everything that lives leaves a significant footprint behind. Even the plants and trees live providing oxygen and a host of other services to the air, insects and animals; after they die the soil is forever altered by the composition of what it has absorbed, affecting the next thing that is planted. All of these things are true and amplified in human life and how it was lived, affecting all the things touched during life.

Why is this true? Humans have the strongest energy of any life form. A life that is lived lovingly, providing encouragement and hope to those who surround you increases the positive energy field that surrounds you and everyone you come into contact with. While it seems invisible, it penetrates everything you touch changing the energy around people, animals, plants and all living forms. It is almost impossible to know who and what your life has or will change in a positive way. Even though your life cycle comes to an end those positive contacts and touches continue on. Like the soil that is forever altered by the decomposition of the tree, everything you touched was transformed in some way. A light filled energy surrounds you and remains even after your death.

A life that is wasted through anger, fear, violence and hateful attributes creates an equally strong energy field that causes chaos and injures everything it touches. For many the damage may last a lifetime, witnessed by the scars left through child abuse and domestic violence. These patterns are frequently carried into several generations. A parents alcoholism can create a generational tendency that is not interrupted until the pattern is broken, the unborn child finally freed through a parent that fought the tendency and remained sober and alcohol free. Other behavior patterns including drug abuse, OCD and so many others affect everyone who comes into contact with it through learned behavior. The death of a person who has lived their live instilling pain and fear leaves a heavy footprint that takes much longer to dissolve and heal. There is great damage in the wake behind them. The energy field around these people is much like a destructive storm. The people whose lives you touched will always be picking up the pieces and hoping to mend. Many never will.

How you choose to live matters far more than you may imagine. You can love and be loved, inspire and be inspired, trust and instill faith, heal and be healed leaving a lasting and loving legacy. You can be hate filled, angry and violent and live a life of misery that destroys others far into the future. Whatever the energy you create will be picked up on the path of a sunbeam and transferred to everything around you continuing long after you depart. It's your life, your story, your legacy; it will be defined by how you lived it.

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