So yesterday I ended up melting of security tags of my new items with a lighter because I was too arrogant to accept help from an employee. This is not the first time I think I know better than others. Karma won and I learned my lesson from this: be humble.
A Funny Story
So.. yesterday something happened that gave me a lesson on humility.
I went to H&M because I needed some new clothes. While there, I decided to use the self-checkout kiosk. As I was scanning my items, an H&M employee approached me and said I was doing it wrong. For some reason, his comment irritated me. He then told me to carry on, probably thinking, “Go ahead and figure it out yourself, girl.” So I kept scanning, finished, and left the store, only to have the alarm go off.
I continue walking thinking that it must be a mistake or something of the security gates..
Back home, all happy with my new purchases, I take the skirts out of the bag and discover that the security tags are still on everything 😕.
o my god
I was pissed at myself AND the H&M employee because why hadn’t he warned me?
I’m too lazy of course to go back to the store so I decided to figure out on YouTube and google how to get those tags off without ruining the clothes.
I ended up spending an hour using a lighter to melt off the security tags so I could use tweezers to remove the hooks. I can tell you, it was not easy and I inhaled a lot of black smoke coming from the melting tags..
Why Humility Is Important
So maybe this may sound like a small thing, but the lesson I learned from this is that humility is such an important thing for me to stay spiritually fit. Looking up humility on Google, it shows me the following definition:
Humility, from the Latin humilis, meaning low or small, means
” the quality of being free from pride and having a low, down-to-earth view of your own importance or significance ”.
I don’t always know better and need to be open to accepting help from others. It’s interesting why the person telling me I was doing it wrong triggered me so much. It made me feel stupid (this is my perception and not necessarily the truth) and it affected my ego. My internal reaction was, “Why are you calling me stupid?” Even though his intention was probably not to make me feel that way. When I reflect on it more deeply, I realize it stems from my insecurity.
Lessons Learned
- How you perceive others is not necessarily the truth. It is your perception of the ”truth”.
- Humility is not a sign of weakness; it implies courage.
