Sunday 7 July 2024
*Humility*
*Humility*
Cricketer *Rahul Dravid was honoured with a doctorate degree* by the University of Bangalore, which Rahul Dravid *gracefully returned*.
Not only did he give back the degree, but he also *gave a wonderful speech*;
he said "My *wife is a doctor, she has spent countless, sleepless nights and days to get this degree*."
" *My mother is a professor of arts*, she has *waited for a long, fifty years for her degree* with perseverance.
I *worked hard to play cricket, but I didn't study* that much, so *how come I accept this degree*?"
*Einstein was offered the Prime Ministership* by the Israeli government *in 1952*.
Einstein politely said, “ *I am an inexperienced student of physics*. What do I understand about the governance and administration of a state !!!”
*Grigori Perelman, the Russian world-renowned mathematician*, he *returned the Field Medals in 2006 and a large sum of money*, regarded as the *equivalent of Nobel Prize in the field of Mathematics*.
He said *“We had a poverty driven childhood* in our family. We had to *manage in a very calculative manner* to save mother's earnings.
May be, that’s the *reason why I was able to develop a little skill in mathematics* since childhood. Since *that phase of poverty is not there anymore* in my life, *what do I do with so much of money?”*
Seeing the humility of these greatly skilled people, one feels to bow down in respect.
*These humble* and down to earth *people remind us over and over again that being humble does not mean one gets less dignified* in the eyes of the society, *rather it portrays in them a much larger than life image*.
As there is a saying *‘Sky is the limit for humility* while there is no limit at all to stoop down to any level”, which our politicians are notoriously popular fo
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