A lot of people do not start out humble, people are inherently proud, and sometimes only humbled by life, mistakes or terrible life circumstances.
Bad times can humble people, good times can make them proud, but there are people who are humble because they've trained their minds to be so, and will definitely remain so.
Being humbled by life and suffering consequences is not completely a bad thing. I've known and met people who are subconsciously arrogant, and most of the time I laugh at them because their arrogance is from a place of ignorance.
Unless you've learned and suffered for your mistakes in life, you'll probably not even know that you're an arrogant person, and that's because it's hard to look in the mirror and say "I've messed up, I should have done better, I didn't" people who rarely apologize have never experienced self introspection.
Sometimes they think apologizing is weakness, they don't understand it's a way to experience inner accountability, while becoming a better person.
However this life. I've met people from all works of life, including life. I've met and dealt with extremely greedy individuals and sometimes these people do not realize that greed comes with consequences.
Greedy and arrogant people are some of the most mindless people, they hardly change until it's too late, and they can no longer make amends. Life teaches lessons, but people who have it hardest are those who eventually learn without getting another chance to change.
They usually become walking encyclopedias, with no idea on how to rewrite their mistakes. I know several people like this in life, and their lives are an experience for me. While I might have been previously arrogant or stubborn.
I've realized that I've seen so many life situations that's gotten me to conclude that I'm no longer like that. I've learned humility from a bitter and a place of spirituality and sometimes from a a distant place, I pity people who haven't learned.
why?
Because they're living in a illusion and do not truly understand how devastating life can be when it chooses to. In reality, be humble. If not but for the sake of how short life is, and how it passed too quick. Lots of time we can get too cocky or too wise for the sake of the material things of life, but it all fades away and we become dust at the end anyway.
Humility is the biggest virtue in life. Humble people are hardly guilty of some of the biggest vices in life. A humble person is likely to be contented or less likely to be greedy. My point is that good virtue attracts other good virtues and this is how we generally improve so many aspects of our life. Be humble today, achieve self introspection, and don't learn when it's already too late to utilize this knowledge
Humility is a quality that is essential to be truly happy. Most people are self centered and focused on possessions, and in the end they don't make you happy. As a matter of fact they can disappear in the blink of an eye. It is something you learn throughout life, as life throws those punches you don't see coming. One day you can be on top of the world and on deaths door the next. Being humble not only makes you appreciate life but makes others value you as well.
It's just sad that it often takes traumatic events for many to become more humble. In the end most people learn it to an extent, except for the true narcissists in the world who are unable to ever gain humility.
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Yeah, for me it's sad to be humbled the way I was made to, it happened in ways I couldn't rewrite my wrongs, but I'll live with the fact that I've made attempts to make it better, even though my attempts never yielded results.
You're right, one way or the others we learn that humility from different life experiences.
Being humble isn't something that you are born with or not... It's something that you learn through life, from your mistakes and experience, but also from your closest family and friends... Also, I remember when I was young, there were some "children's shows" on TV where we were taught about human values, things like being humble, respectful, etc. Maybe it was some kind of brainwashing, but I didn't perceive it like that...
Nowadays, I don't see anything similar in any media... Whenever you look, you see narcissistic, arrogant, egoistic influencers jumping on camera, selling you stuff...
We need to make a huge U-turn and begin building strong family bonds and connections, "investing" in children, as they are those who can create a better future for all humanity...
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Yeah, I think people aren't taught to be humble, they learn it. Actually schools and some places teaches kids value and I think it's part of the syllabus, and because it's expected of them. Even as at this, some kids ends up arrogant and still never really key into those values they're being taught.
While I think people can learn from being taught, some of the hardest realities of life that are humbling are mostly experienced.
You're right about investing in good values, I think when people invest in good basic values then it reflects in their lives and families
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Rarely people now say sorry, everyone is sure to be the carrier of the truth and you see that daily... Arrogance is also promoted by all the media, you never see modest and humility persons carried as examples.. It's all the system that needs to be fixed
Yeah, truly arrogance is promoted and exist in the media, I've been on many social spaces and you don't find a lot of people promoting the concept of humility
It never hurts to be humble. I just find that its much better for going through life without as much trouble. In the digital age, there are just a few people that can't accept they are wrong, but we don't know everything. People need to accept that some people are different.
Yeah, it's rare to get people who would admit to being wrong and apologise. We live in a world where people are not so empathetic
It does become a good experience for introspection when circumstances are hard and we're forced to look within ourselves trying to discern what went wrong. I think life will always humble us to keep our ego in check irrespective of what our standing is, good reminder to not take things too seriously and everything here is temporary.
For me it was the death of my only sibling. If I had been more reflective, empathetic and not so lost in my world, perhaps things could have been different. Learned humility, but the lesson learned couldn't rewrite my wrongs
Humility is one of the key virtue i learned from Jesus christ, despite being God left his throne to become a child and walk like ordinary men on earth, but some with just a touch of wealth will start acting like God,
circumstances and certain conditions have a way of making people truly humble, I too find my self here, if I have all I need I doubt, I was telling my friends couple of days a go, it's very hard to have money and stay humble