Humility,

A misunderstood trait,often mistaken for weakness,selfconciousness and oblivion,when in reality it represents extreme measures of strength,confidence and sensibility.I believe individual’s who are aware of themselves and do not require the need to over compensate for the fulfillment of society are misunderstood and taken advantage of due to their silence.I believe that an intellectually humble person is self aware enough to the extent where they are mature enough to accept other ideals of life.I believe intellectually humble individuals are people who are able to be successful in society in the sense of creating relationships, wether they be business,romantic and or friendships.I believe that being a humble individual is a key characteristic of a self confidant individual.

“Enough confidence to hold your head high.Enough humility not to look down on others.”

~ Unknown

An example of intellectual humility in my own life would be when I learned how to forgive,  being a teenager is about experience,we live our teen years learning from mistakes and also learning who we truly are as an individual.When I first began high school I would find myself angry at the world for all the hardships I had suffered in my life at such a young age.I forgot about my future because I had consumed myself in self pity and sadness.At times I felt like every breathe I was breathing was my last.I had no idea of who I was,I had no idea of who I wanted to be, I had no idea of my identity,I had completely trapped myself within the suffocating walls of my overthinking brain.I had reached an all time low

Wake up, brush my teeth, get ready for school and go; I had lost direction.My life became a repetition of the same cycle over and over and over.I would think of life and see nothing but failure…as I was following the constant cycle of my life I came to a sudden pause,frozen, my thoughts could no longer make me feel suffocated and isolated;I had missed the bus, so I took the train home, on my way as I stood at the quite train station I felt the the cold breeze settle, the numbing of my toes and fingers, yet for some reason I felt at peace.As I sat on the empty train watching all the people live their busy lives in downtown;a part of the city where all the well dressed business interns work, a mother and her little daughter sat across from me.I had been in a state of reflection of my life from the very moment I stepped onto that train, a weird feeling from that very moment had been sitting in my gut.As I watched this mother console her daughter; who had been in tears because she had left her red scarf at the station, I saw the beauty of life.That red scarf, that red scarf, that red scarf had reminded me of life, that mother reminded me of genuine love, the tears of that girl reminded me of pain, and that scarf was life.All humans experience hardships in their lives,all humans have different paths to walk even though they may not be aware, like that scarf left behind.Little did that girl know in that moment that she would go on to wear her mothers scarf, one with more meaning and comfort and most important love.I learned that love was something that should be pure and genuine, that mothers love for her daughter taught me something and that was that you should be humble with your love, because it is something that heals the broken and mends the wounded.In that moment I began to appreciate the beauty of my life, a loving mothers,loving family and a world of opportunity, not all my problems were fixed but I learned to forgive, I had always thought that this feeling of a never ending suffocating cycle called life was something that only I was experiencing but that red scarf helped me realize that in fact everyone else was experiencing it to in their lives in different ways,from that realization I learned to humble myself because regardless of what I may be going through there will always be others walking along side of me with their own hardships, so self pity was no longer an option for me,I had a beautiful, happy and successful life to live on and I would do it in the most humble and genuine way I knew how.