Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Humility

Being humble is often considered a good trait in people, it is the opposite of pride. Pride is a source of shame whenever your limits are tested. Humility on the other hand is knowing your limits and being comfortable with them, or striving to better yourself without the need for others approval. Humility suggests knowledge. Only fools are prideful, those with unwarranted pride are easily manipulated because they feel a need to protect their overly inflated egos. Those that are humble do not feel a need to show off or prove their worth to other people. They know their own personal worth, and it is logical not over inflated or irrational. Humility can be a good quality that employers look for as well, they will get their job done and not feel like they should receive awards or praise. They will want to good on their work to live up to their own standards, not any other person's. Humility is overall just more enjoyable to be around as well, if some one is all proud and constantly feels the need to brag and justify themselves, it can get annoying rather fast. Humble people are fun to be around because they can just talk without always steering the conversation back to their own exploits. So overall humility is pretty good.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Attitude

I think the simplest way to describe my attitude is as a laid back pessimist. As awful as that sounds, it fits me. Like I said in a previous post, I tend to not plan things and more or less do things spontaneously, or with little thought or care to what might happen. This is probably due to being laid back, honestly in most circumstances, mundane circumstances that is, I tend not to really care. I don't think I am conveying this properly, so I'll give you an example: person: "hey should we go at this time or this time? and should we go here first or here first?" me: "I don't care, we'll leave when we are ready.. as for which first, which is closer?" Somehow I almost always end up being the one to decide details, usually just to make them stop nagging though. In terms of my outlook on society and people in general, I'm rather pessimistic. being pessimistic about people also attributes to my somewhat antisocial attitude. Most of the time I'm content to stay at home and not have to deal with other people. I have a select few people that I actually really enjoy being around, I can count those few on one hand. I do try to at least give people a chance though, I may be pessimistic, but I'd prefer to prove my pessimistic views wrong. So i guess that means I'm trying to be optimistic, but it usually doesn't work.