There are certain stages of life that one will get too and definitely feel proud of it, then you will know that it is time to celebrate achievement and attainment of success.
The Usual Feeling We Get As We Pass Through Each Phase In Life.
If you will remember very well those times when we successfully completed our primary education, we were filled with excitement, we were so happy that we could get to such a height.
We expected that our parents should be very proud of us, it was really a great height to us. Thereafter we moved to secondary school, we came to the realization then that stage was just the very beginning for us and that was in a way an achievement for us.
We were so happy to have moved to another stage and all that we anticipated was the day we will finally get out of secondary school and become big boys or girls. To us, we felt that whenever we get out of secondary school it is the actualization of great dreams and steps in life.
Something even worse then happened when we got to the university, it was as if we were on top of the whole world, we were so glad to announce our admission to the university, before anyone even asks, we will tell them about our school and the level that we are and then the next thing that comes to our mind is the day of our convocation, that day when we will finally get out of school.
The Eye Opener.
Finally, we get out of the university and then our eyes get opened to the realization of joblessness in the country and then it begins to get into our brains that all that we have achieved does not make us the most important persons in the world.
Life Scenerio.
Personally, I do not think that any attainment in life should make you proud or feel on top of the world unnecessarily, what you take to be your greatest achievement might just be the least of achievement for your next door neighbor who does not even brag about it, so my question is, why the pride?
I once heard a story of a man who had gotten so many degrees to his name, but had no wife nor children, no car, and no house, he just kept on reading and he insulted every other person has been dumb, to him whosoever could not get high numbers of degrees is just "a very dump fellow, as he calls them".
He once had a student who was not really bright but tried all that he could to read and understand, but the more he tried, the more education looked more though for him. This lecturer of his, made things even more worse as he calls him dumb all the time.
This young man finally dropped out of school, because the lecturer had told him that nothing good could ever come out of him since he was just too dumb to understand what he was thought.
He decided to try his hands on business, and he started doing well at it, he was even happy that the old man had insulted him and that pushed him to find his niche.
The old lecturer was in serious trouble one day and he needed money to get out of it, the young man he used to call dumb back then, paid his bill and helped him out of the trouble he found himself in. The old man began to apologize but the young man just smiled and told him that his insult had made him a better person today so he had no reason for regret.
Why will you even get so proud that you begin to see someone else as being insignificant? there is a whole of things that some other people can offer that you cannot offer. There are so many skills and so many things that you cannot do alone and that is the more reason why each person is usually more comfortable with his or her own profession, so please stop getting too proud because you can give something that is especially skilled. Rather appreciate others for the things that they can offer as well.
The Next Phase.
Because, you are lucky enough to be the first person to graduate from the university in your family, every other person is not reasonable again?
Or just because you are lucky enough to help some people, you want them to become slaves to you forever, wake up my friend, the fact that you have achieved this particular phase in life does not make you a god, there are so many other achievements in life that will require humility, dedication and hard work.
If you really want to go far in life, you need to get humble.