It’s humbling to think it’s already day #3 of Humility Week at the NDD!

It is paradoxical that those who are most self-conscious, seemingly the most insecure and with the most damaged ego and self-esteem, are often the ones who are thinking about themselves the most. They are worried about what others think of them.  They are worried about being disapproved of. They are concerned they aren’t lovable.  They are thinking a lot about themselves, perhaps in a skewed, inaccurate way, but still they are thinking about self.  The more someone does that the less they think about others, right?

The question then becomes, who is the bigger egotist, the one who is supremely confident or the one who may not be at all confident but is thinking about themselves all the time?

Whatever the case, a smart reading of humility would include this idea; that when you aren’t thinking about yourself you are able to think about others and act on helping them, nurturing them, protecting them, feeding them.  

Humility is more about other-awareness than self-awareness.

By the way, I like this quote so much I have used it twice. The first time was with a drawing of a woman looking in a hand mirror while a person in the background helped a man who had fallen out of a wheelchair get back in it.  The drawing was pretty lousy actually.

Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman

Quote by C. S. Lewis, 1898-1963, Irish writer