Define Yourself Modestly, You Know Who You Are

There is a saying. It is “We become what we think.” I know people who think of themselves as an extremely brilliant person having the ability to accomplish anything they desire. They present this attitude to others and when you are in their presence, you almost believe this is true. Then there are others who have the degrees, the money, the intelligence, the kindness that do not realize that they have these attributes.

It is interesting to contrast these two people when you think about them. One who admires him or herself when maybe there is not all that to endear. The other one is somebody special,   and they are modest as can be. You have to squeeze it out of them about their accomplishments and activities. They are modest to the extreme of modesty.

I know of one woman who is about fifty. She works in a modest job and she does her job well, though the other employees do not care for her. She projects this manner of she is a very important person in this office and you almost have to admire her for her temerity in this attitude. If you listened to her stories, you will think she runs the office of hundreds of employees whereas she is one of hundreds of employees. It makes her feel ten feet tall and she holds herself up mentally and physically with this stance.

Then there are others who represent great modesty and to look at them and to talk to them about their jobs, they present a sincere meekness and wisdom that defies their accomplishments.

There has to be an in between placing of these kind of folks. I know a woman who was a nurse; at least we all thought she was a regular floor nurse which is a fine profession. When she passed on, we found out that her position was so high up in the ranks, that she as a nurse with a R.N. degree as they gave in the days of 1950 whereas now, many nursing students get bachelor’s degree. She rose so high in position that she advised famous doctors at a highly thought of hospital on things they were to do in the medical profession and the nursing profession too.

She had a very fine position at the hospital with her own secretary that she never told us about. She never bragged or spoke of the excellent and important work in this medical profession. Many of her ideas were unique and the doctors respected her and put into effect her brilliant thoughts to ensure the nursing profession continued on the rise in methods of nurse recruitment and nursing skills to benefit the patient.

So there are two types of people, one who brags of their small positions and another one who was at the highest top of her profession and she in turn advised these men and women who were solidly educated and held great esteem with their medical skills.

I know women who do not accomplish events for others, they may play cards for their own entertainment which is acceptable and fine for them; there are others who give of their time for charity to aid others and others who take people who do not have transportation going to doctors, they give their time and their gasoline to transport these people where they need to go.

They are like a visiting angel (the name of a service company) in helping incapacitated folks who have no cars to get to their medical appointments.

I try to do my bit, I cannot transport needy persons to a medical appointment, I can encourage and instill the feeling to capable folks to go out and to do something that makes them happy regardless of their age right now by my articles and that is my contribution in helping modes. When someone reads my various articles 530 to date since July 19, 2011 to get up and to go out, anywhere even if to a mall to make their days happier and full of fun, then I have done my small part in changing someone’s current life. There is a lady in Texas who is from the Philippines and she works and from reading my articles, she has had the courage to start taking dancing lessons in a group class (which is less expensive than a private one) and this makes her so happy and she feels complete as a person. Her husband is not interested in this, so she does her thing and he does his own, doing something else he always wanted to do, he takes tennis lessons. So the two of them are doing something they have contemplated for a long time.

This is progress in their lives.

I would rather play down of any accomplishments I have up to a point, rather than overplay them to make myself more important than I may be. I know what I do, the people I do for now and my mind and soul knows it and I would rather be like my friend, the nurse who was so modest, she knew in her heart  who she was and an angel was what she was for sure.

God knows who is an angel and that is pretty good.

“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.” This was written by Eckhart Tolle.    Follow it and it will follow you into happiness.