Humility

There are some who are grappling with severe physical/mental disabilities or are going through personal, family or financial situations that are so trying that its a full time job to just survive! This post does not address them! As for everyone else:

Humility, when practiced after having mastered a field of knowledge, or after having refined an art to a high degree of perfection, is meaningful, beautiful.

But short of that, where's the choice to be anything but humble anyway?

Where's the merit in pretentiously showcasing humility as a virtue you possess if you aren't working hard at either mastering a field of knowledge or refining an art to a high degree of perfection?

Are you getting what I'm saying?

PS-1: I'm not talking about worldly success or failure above. There are ample examples of substandard people "getting ahead" in life by being corrupt or compromising on their ethics and character. There are also ample examples of excellent people encountering failure in the world because they refuse to compromise on their integrity. I stand solidly with the second set. Men and women of integrity are men and women in the true sense of these words.

PS-2: No, just being monetarily rich does not qualify as achieving something 😅! That even the Mukesh Ambanis, Gautam Adanis and Lalit Modis of the world can do 😅. Monetary richness is impressive only if you also work on your intelligence and become someone like J.R.D. Tata, G.D. Birla or Sundar Pichai. Otherwise not 😊.