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My friends, colleagues, and church brethren define humility as:
“Putting the needs of another person before your own.”
“Think of others before yourself.”
“Not drawing attention to yourself.”
“Acknowledge that you can be wrong.”
Other words for humility are obedience, passiveness, self-abasement, down-to-earthiness, and lack of pride.
Once I took off my prescription eyeglasses and gave them to a stranger. She disappeared, and I was stranded, blind, and miserable.
Humility is subjective. How do you define humility?
Some people define humility as the first part of the above definitions. Often, they give an example of a billionaire Warren Buffett living in the same old house for a century.
Have they ever been to Buffett’s houses?
I think humility is not a lack of pride, or what we wear or where we live, or what we tell people — but being ourselves, stepping aside when we’re wrong, and respecting ourselves and others.
