Recently I read the word being used this way:
"I am tremendously humble and was a little emotional after the game," Childress said. "I'm just happy for those guys in the locker room. ... They faced a lot of adversity tonight. It was an away game, a Monday night, Hall of Fame coach, I'm just pleased with what they accomplished."
Oftentimes I would hear the word being used in this manner: " I am humbled by this great opportunity," or "I am humbled to receive this award." At first glance, the kind of emotion that the sentences convey sounds good but it seems to me that the word humble is being missused in such cases.
Humble people do not claim to be humble.
A Humbling experience usually involves some type of struggle within oneself self which is not the kind the feeling one gets when one gets an award or a win - grateful maybe, but not humble. Maybe I'm just a bit behind the evolution of the word. If so, please explain.
2006-09-12
04:41:43
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