Humility @senseicat
This morning, after arriving to our son's award ceremony, I was eagerly searching for a seat, and my friend gets up from the coveted first row center spot and offers it to me. We both refused to take this spot which happens to be the best place to photograph our teachers and children, and there was only room for two and we both had our husbands with us. We spent 5 minutes encouraging one another to sit explaining why it is best for the other to take the spot. My friend sat several rows down and so did I in another area where neither of us could see as well. We are also both very small stature and vertically challenged. We both noticed that the VIP seat was filled quickly by someone else.
As I sat down, I laughed inside knowing what would have happened had my friend and I been on the Titanic together. We would both be encouraging each other to take the last spot on the rescue boats.
Sometimes, it seems that we live in a me centered world and it is so refreshing to learn to bow to others. It feels authentically good to feel humility and to free our ever present ego.
It's what I always say do good so you'll feel better.
In Asia, we were taught to be compassion, respectful and be grateful. This should be spread to the world. But sometime situations like yours happens to leave our days with a little joy in our heart.