We really get some things wrong.
Or maybe I have a different definition? Who knows?! Getting people to agree even on facts is very difficult.
But when people hear the word humility, I believe a lot of people think of weakness or meekness – they should know their place and not take on airs and graces.
I see it slightly differently.
We assume we have all the answers. I won’t say who it was that I was talking with last night but it got somewhat heated! I asked this person to stop, so desperately, clinging to this God/Satan narrative.
It’s clear the version of history we’ve been sold is misleading at best and totally false at worst. History to me seems a loyalty test to the regime, accepting what they call facts for brownie points.
Humility, to me, though would be best characterised as a desire for the truth, to see what is real, and never assuming anything.
Are there some things we cannot prove? It’s certainly possible.
I remember watching the film Contact growing up, where the main character, Ellie, was an astronomer, who had lost her father when she was very young. The film becomes a dichotomy between science and religion but actually ends on a rather positive if ambiguous note “our goal is one and the same, the pursuit of truth, I for one believe her.” Great film.
Never profess to have all the answers and never be so sure in yourself you alienate yourself from reality.
We lack humility frequently out of the fear of not knowing, of being afraid to say “I don’t know.”
There is great nobility in humility, to being open to things we don’t know yet.
It’s all an adventure.
Have a great day truth-seekers!