Cinco de Mayo

I know some of you celebrate Cinco de Mayo by just using it as an excuse to get drunk.  That's fine if that's what you enjoy...but don't forget that it is destroying your brain and your ability to have real emotions.  Google it.

My discussion is not going to focus on this however, it will focus on humility.

Humility can be hard to understand.  What is humility?

hu·mil·i·ty

/(h)yo͞oˈmilitē/

Noun A modest or low view of one's own importance; humbleness.

Synonyms modesty - meekness - humbleness - lowliness - submission I was taught at a young age and into adulthood that it is right to place other's wants and needs above my own.  So that is what I do by default.  In my mind humility is taking care of everyone else despite my own needs, wants and feelings. But what I've learned over time is that by putting everyone ahead of my own needs is actually self degrading.  I need to set boundaries for myself so that I can put into perspective what is and what isn't my responsibility.  I am only responsible for myself.  That doesn't mean I need to degrade anyone else in the process.  It's a fine line to draw in the sand, and it's difficult to manage.  Today I will do something for myself that I would normally put aside for someone else to enjoy. "We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life.  But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end." ~Joseph Fort Newton