6th August, 2008
You would have noticed some people being very quiet, talk only when it is necessary and stick with their work. They never boast; leave it, never even speak about their dexterity and achievements. They wait for opportunity, till then they analyze the situation, gather resources and tackle it with full force and always return with absolute result. It gives you opinion that they are not very sociable, do not posses any extra ordinary quality, etc. But when they surprise you with their result, you sit back and re-evaluate your opinion. They often surprise the world and are hard to be expected. I don’t say you were wrong in your evaluation; the fault lies in your inability to differentiate between persons who are timid and those who are humble. There is only hair size difference between them. Best parameter in my opinion is their way of conversation, if they are laconic and polite, it means they are humble and if subtle and polite then they are timid. The former will work out wonders, while later needs guidance and support to achieve same results. Often people miscalculate humble people to be timid ones and land themselves in difficult situations.
Here I want to share with you one of the anecdotes I read about Gandhi. This incident happened in one of his trips from Africa to India in ship. An English gentleman who couldn't tolerate Gandhi’s accomplishments in Africa gave him a set of abusive letters pinned together written by him to Gandhi. Gandhi received it, took the pin from the bunch of papers, kept it safely in his pocket and threw the papers into sea. The irritated gentleman took Gandhi to be a timid and chided him “You had essential advice in those papers, but you wasted them”. Gandhi who was humble replied back “I took what was considerable as worthy for me from it, thank you!”
Tipped by,
Kanagasabai S
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