You can be proud of yourself and what you do, but you shouldn’t let it go to your head. Artificially swelling your ego causing you to strut around like you’re better than others. The media – print, TV, movies, and social, like to make you think that some people are larger than life when in fact everyone puts their pants on one leg at a time. That you’re only cool if you have a personal brand or are some kind of an influencer. But there was a time, not so long ago, when the cool cats were the ones who didn’t think they were better than everyone else and were known to hold the door for others and say please and thank you. The ones who were appreciative and humble. It’s okay to be proud and humble. It’s not okay to make yourself feel big by making others feel small. It’s nice to be great but better to be a good person. Caring more about and doing more for others than you do for yourself. That’s what leaders and role models do. That’s what the people you want to be around do. Be proud and humble today.
Thomas Merton (1915 – 1968): American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist, and scholar of comparative religion.
Learn more about this cool cat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Merton
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