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 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, 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 people, one has 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”.
( Source : { EMG Group - SSM TRUST} Dr A Jagan Mohan Reddy)
