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A Quick Lesson - Humility
    #7211221 - 07/22/07 07:17 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

I received a quick lesson today from death. I was longboarding around my neighborhood, holding on to a rope attached to my friend's moped. We were pushing the speed and doing some really dangerous stuff and I almost wiped out a few times.

We were calling it quits and heading back to his house, and we went around a traffic circle. I thought we were going to keep going around but he turned right, back onto the street. I was to his back left so to turn right I had to carve really wide and I ended up in the on-coming lane.

Suddenly an SUV turned around the corner and was coming straight at me. We were on a collision course, both going 20-25 miles an hour. I swerved hard to the right as fast as I could but my board gave way, and I flew off my board. For a few seconds I thought I was going to die. Then I just felt a ton of pain all at once.

Well, nothing was broken or pulled or torn or anything like that. I got a ton of scratches and bruises. I'd fallen before but this was my first major wipe-out.

I thought about it the rest of the day and all I could think about was telling people about it. It was such a fun story to tell, but I wasn't really fathoming how close I came to death, I guess because I just assumed it wasn't my time, and I have a kind of faith or belief that I will not die any time soon.

Anyway, I was reading OrgoneConclusion's post earlier about his experience on a high dose of mushrooms. He said he never really knew what humility was before that experience.

I think I have no idea what humility is. Nor do I often heed the wise voice within me that tells me to be more stoic about things like this. I was at a basketball game tonight and I wasn't playing well and I used the story and the resultant injuries as an excuse and kind of flaunted it. That isn't humble and it makes me feel very egocentric.

Anyway, what I learned is that it is important to at least try to be humble and gracious, to try to listen more than you talk (as much as we all love to hear ourselves talk about our own personal melodramas). Humility is something that can maybe only be fully grokked with age and experience, but maybe this was an important lesson from the universe.


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“Strengthened by contemplation and study,
I will not fear my passions like a coward.
My body I will give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
my spirit as was before: ascetic.”

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Re: A Quick Lesson - Humility [Re: Lion]
    #7211234 - 07/22/07 07:19 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

Great post.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: A Quick Lesson - Humility [Re: Lion]
    #7216875 - 07/24/07 04:30 AM (16 years, 8 months ago)

"Death is near, it comes without warning, soon this body will be a corpse." - some old Tibetan saying


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Re: A Quick Lesson - Humility [Re: Sinbad]
    #7217150 - 07/24/07 08:28 AM (16 years, 8 months ago)

:lipsrsealed: ~ some dead guy


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Re: A Quick Lesson - Humility [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #7217155 - 07/24/07 08:35 AM (16 years, 8 months ago)

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OrgoneConclusion said:
:lipsrsealed: ~ some dead guy



:lol: Nah man, go talk to the dead guys in the graveyard, they don't talk much.

But they do sit inside trees now and then. :eek:


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