6/22/2006 7:37 pm
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you know, I think this was one of the best questions asked to be answered in the profile questionnaire. Who hasn't been humbled at some point in their life, and if you haven't been yet then you are long over-due or you are too self-absorbed to admit it.
Besides, being humbled isn't necessarily a negative thing. It takes a secure person to admit they don't always have the answer, can do or even will do the right thing, or that theirs' is a charmed life. Except some chick I saw here on the site who declared she had never been humbled before-ever. Yeah right lady. You're on a personnel's site at the age of 36 looking for companionship in the biggest city in the cosmos. If that ain't humbling, I don't know what is. I'm gonna go with...it is. It sucks that no-one seems capable of talking to each other outside in the real-world, but maybe this is life in the 21st century. You will have no choice but to meet your lover-to-be on-line. Maybe even get married on-line and live you lives together...on-line, through your computers and ichat cameras and voice activated email. But that's a whole other blog.
So, I was humbled yet again today. It was the good kind that produces crystal revelations about life and such. But I'm tired so I'm not going to go into it now.
How bout you? Any revelatory humbling moments in your current life?
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3317 posts 6/22/2006 10:44 pm |
I am humbled every time I look up at the stars, at a tree, or feel the wind on my face.
Anyone whs claims they've never been humbled is (1) a liar, (2) a damned fool or (3) a complete deludoid. In all three cases, the best thing to do is just walk away.
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2536 posts 6/23/2006 4:19 am |
Some people mistake the question and tell an anecdote about a time they were humiliated. Very different thing.
I am humbled when I hear of another's adversity. I am humbled when I look at good art or read good writing or even eat a stupendous meal. It can be very humbling to be in the presence of great talent.
But as Guzzi points out, nature can be most humbling.
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3339 posts 6/23/2006 9:15 am |
I'm with iPodgrl on this one. Most people take that question to go with "Most Embarrassing Moment" and while technically, something humbling can be embarrassing, I think it's the person who uses that question to say something about a real life experience in which they've learned something that I'd rather know. I mean, do you really care about the time she spilled Kool-Aid on her brand new white dress in the 8th grade? Not really.
My moment in my profile is a story that I've told - strange that no one has ever asked about it - friends for years, but it's not the only one. Here's a nother few:
- walking into the Sacre Coeur
- lying in a field in western PA looking up at the stars
- standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon
- doing an improv workshop with performers from Zimbabwe
- swimming in the Hudson
- greeting riders in NY from the AIDS Ride
- jumping out of a plane over NJ
- meeting one of my ex's grandmother who was a Holocaust survivor (And I was worried that she wouldn't like me because I was black! )
There's more, but I may as well start a whole new thread if I going to go through them all!!
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7 posts 6/24/2006 8:36 am |
What's a "deluloid"?
I'd look it up but I'm feeling lazy.
It is agreed that "humbled" is often equated with humiliation, and that is just plain sad.
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38 posts 6/30/2006 5:06 pm |
When I first joined this site I noticed that same humbling vs. humiliating phenomenon and I mentioned it as part of my response to the most humbling moment question. Something along the lines of "many profiles I've seen confuse humility with humiliation, etc." Seemed like a nice idea at the time. Except that I think the result was for many people to think I was some kind of arrogant bastard. You might say "You wouldn't want to hear from those people anyway", but there are some hot babes who can't tell their humble from their humil 
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