Reasons To Stay Humble

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An unknown author created the quote “no matter how big your house is, how recent your car is or how big your bank account is. Our graves will always be the same size. Stay humble “ Humble can be defines having or showing a modest or low estimate of one’s own importance. This author was attempting to convince the audience that no matter how rich they become everyone must try to remain humble. The truth of the matter is to stay humble is much more difficult for than people think. Everyday people come across temptations that challenge this viewpoint, like graduating from college and get a job that pay more than you ever made in their life. There are obstacles constantly make people forget the principle of staying humble. …show more content…

According to the online dictionary that being humble is the opposite of being proud. People are not supposed to think of themselves as better than other people. It is hard for many people not to proud of the thing that they have accomplished. There are people who come for humble beginning and reach a level of power and money. These people think they are special. They buy expensive items to show how successful they’ve become. They push aside people who’ve helped them become success. They abandon the core values and principles that help made them successful. They’re successful in one area of their life make them better than most people. The author want use the grave to show that material item can’t fit in the grave. In grave there is no room for ego, houses, cars or money just the …show more content…

The way pride creeps into the place of being humble. They being in the end no matter how hard they work for wealth it is the people that look down on to be there for them. In the same article talk of man that pride become his down fall. There is a story that illustrates my point quiet brilliantly. Consider an ancient tale of a young king enthroned at the tender age of 16. (Young as it may seem in ancient times such was a possibility). His reign was successful because he was intelligent and diligent in his affairs, but I also like to think it was because he accepted and appreciated counsel from his elders who were much wiser than he. But when he had become powerful, he also became proud which led to his downfall. He now refused to listen to the advice of his elders and lost his humble and sincere demeanour One day he was struck with leprosy and that was the end of him, he lived in a secluded house, now a rejected outcast and nobody was willing to help him. He died a miserable, painful and lonely death. Nobody remembered him for what he had accomplished in his youth but they rather remembered how he grew into a pompous king and later died the death of a lowly man and was buried as such. This should be a reminder, that no matter how big your house is, no matter how new your car is or how big your bank account is, our graves will always be the same size, so we should stay humble

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