Life lessons always seem to sneak up on me when I’m least
expecting them, but when I need them the most. Now that I’m 18, I clearly have
learned everything there is to learn, and my life’s task is no longer to be a
sponge to all the incoming information, but rather sacrifice myself to those
who need the advice I have so intellectually attained. If you have not picked
up on my sarcasm by now, be assured that it is heavily prevalent.
Though I would love to sit back and say that I’ve never felt
this high-and-mighty air, I must admit, that in certain situations, this
thought has crossed my mind. When I see someone struggling with a situation
I’ve already experienced and have found my way through, I take it upon myself
to spend the next twenty minutes lecturing about what should be done, and what
shouldn’t.
It is so easy to think we know everything just based off of
a handful of situations where we’ve been able to help a friend through a rough
time, or even a stranger in passing. However, the second I was presented with a
situation I had no idea how to handle, I immediately fell back into the “sponge
stage”, just like I referenced earlier. My pride has repeatedly taken hits from
the multiple times I’ve had to re-learn this lesson. “Surely,” I have thought,
“now that I’ve attained a college degree there is nothing else to learn.” This
reasoning of having nothing else to learn, I have found, is unfortunate for a
couple of reasons that I will list in a short and sweet manner: there is, and
it would be no fun.
This post is no more for my readers than it is for myself. I
find there is always something about myself that I’m working on, and humility often
finds itself at the top of my to-do list. I have a feeling that once I find
myself in college in less than a month, this virtue will not be as difficult to
control.
If anyone else finds themselves struggling with this, I will
leave you with this verse.
“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with
one another in love.” – Ephesians 4:2
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