Journal
#3
April
30, 2012
I liked this quote because I feel
like it is something Aslan would say, and that just culminates what I think of
C.S. Lewis. He has a way of explaining life’s lessons without making you feel
stupid, or believing you’ve lived your whole life the wrong way. He writes them
not as someone teaching someone else, but rather as someone realizing these
lessons and just saying them out loud. This particular lesson about humility, “humility
is not thinking less of yourself,” speaks of experience, like he’s trying to
explain to himself that in the past I’ve thought of myself as less than
everyone else and I thought was what being humble meant. Then he goes on to
say, “but thinking of yourself less,” not as some grand revelation but rather
as a life lesson that he’s almost stumbled upon. Even as you discover that you
have spent all this time hiding the greatness within you, you’ve been thinking
about yourself. Instead change that by living in the moment, stop thinking
about you and your actions and attitude will speak for themselves. Your
humility will come from people speaking your praise and you just living your
life. That’s beautiful in a way that I could never even think of being. I love
talking about myself, and perhaps there is still a place for Lewis’ definition
of humility in my life, but so far I haven’t found it. #braggingtilIdie
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