Historically, humility is strongly linked to 'Christian virtue'
as in so many sermons it is used to make asking for less
a signal of virtue, whether it is sensible to do so or not,
never mind wondering what spiritual health might be
and how easily so many wealthy Victorians imitated
what genuine Christian humility had once been,
and how they never foresaw how imitation becomes self parody.
But there is a real, natural, value to humility
-it means that when the world does not give you
what you wanted, directly, and offers you
only what it wants, then you can understand,
and appreciate what it is that you have been offered.
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