On Humility: A Musing

Musings are starter reflections still formulating that help open new possibilities. Give yourself time to engage with your own musings as this is a vital step in the dreaming process!

Humility (noun) - "a modest or low view of one's own importance. Humbleness" 

I have been told to be humble my whole life.

To place my ego, intelligence, creativity and light at the altar of someone else.

An offering.

A sacrifice to institutions in exchange for their "acceptance".

Yet, I never felt accepted. And the more I learned within the four walls of these institutions the more I learned why I would never be accepted,

But institutions are GOOOOOD at what they do and in the process of all that learning I was also disciplined.

Disciplined by a discipline that helped discipline us all on who and what the human is. So that we saw the human through the lens of those who were far removed from their own humanity, but had the arrogance to use THEIR own logic to justify why THEIR lens was THE universal lens for all.

Anthropology disciplined me through humiliation while also patting itself on the back for acknowledging its own shortcomings. So who was I to question that?

"Hold up...sit down....be humble..."

Humility (noun) - "a modest or low view of one's own importance. Humbleness"