The Ultimate Humiliation
What would you consider to be the
ultimate humiliation? Is it when your team losses a game to your rivals or is
it when the person you trusted most turns against you? Is it when you are
unable to deliver what you promised? When I think of humiliation, I think of
Nelson Mandela who tells numerous stories of twenty-seven years of humiliation without
any sense of anger or pride. Humiliation is an intensely emotional experience
and I doubt anyone can go through it without the pain of being misunderstood.
A friend tells me of how he was
sacked and dismissed in front of his colleagues at an office function. He left
the room discouraged and distraught. His friends dissociated themselves with
him in case they came to face the same fate. Humiliation is a humbling and isolating
experience that calls on all your mortal reserves and spiritual core to
withstand. It is a wound that feel like will never heal.
Unlike Mandela, some people may
not outlive their humiliation, but all of us must overcome and not allow it to
stop us from moving forward. There are mothers and fathers, men and women, boys
and girls in all stages of life who will never get to tell their stories of
humiliation and how they overcame. But today I want you to know, though I do
not know your name, you are heroes in my hall of fame. With tears in your heart,
give up the pain and in the name of all that is good, get up and stand again.
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