Can someone explain that, please.
For me in my humble experience humility is a product of humiliation.
Humility is accepting your limitations and keeping your ego in check.
Humiliation is when that is exposed to people without any compassion and respect for the fact that we are all struggling.
A humiliation is impossible to recover from.
I don’t know humility, though I try to practice it when it’s called for.
It’s more my argument with the language. Both words have the same root, like terror and terrific.
Humility: good.
Humiliation: bad.
You don’t need to be humiliated by anyone or yourself to obtain humility.
I guess they are just feelings, right?
Here’s how I reconcile the two. Humility is when you lessen your own importance. Humiliation is when someone or circumstances lessens it for you.
It’s the lack of control and public nature of humiliation that makes it painful and traumatic.
It’s a little like self-deprecation vs being deprecated by someone else. It’s different when you are in control.
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