Friday, July 24, 2009

Humility

I will get better at this I promise.... One of the most important marks of a lady is her humility. She is able to admit when she is learning something, and try her best to make others feel welcome to help her. One thing that you never want to do is to make someone else feel that you think you are better than they are. There is no harm in expressing confidence, and telling stories about your life, but there can be a lot of harm done if in expressing those things you put yourself off as higher than the person that you are talking to.
When I was a young girl, I always wanted to impress those around me, and so I learned everything that I could, and then when someone was having a conversation I would tell them that I knew what they were talking about and tell them more about it that I assumed they did not know. I did not that by doing that I was showing people that they had nothing to teach me, and that I knew everything better than they did. We must always be considerate when talking to people, it is ok to not know something.
As we work on being lady like and calling ourselves to a standard, it is sometimes difficult to balance confidence with humility, just remember to always make it more about them than it is about you, that is the true mark of humility. The definition of a Lady or Gentleman is someone who makes those around them more comfortable. That is what we are working towards.

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