This past Sunday morning, while walking the parking lot and greeting folks,
I started picking up litter. This was my idea. When walking around welcoming
people to Church, I would often notice some debris every now and then in the
parking lot. Walking around with a bucket and a pole with a grabbing claw on
the end, I noticed a few different responses to my normal well wishes. One
gentleman commented on my picking up garbage as we exchanged hellos. He told
me something to the effect that "it is better that I am doing this because
he would not be caught dead cleaning up other people's garbage".
Okay, it was not as sharp as that, but it kind of felt that way. It also got
me thinking (you know how that happens from time to time….)
When we think we are too good for something, we elevate the perception we
have of ourselves in our own mind. We, in effect, start thinking we are
better than other people, that there are things which are beneath us. The
longer we believe this delusion and pump ourselves up, the higher we raise
our own ego.
When our ego gets so inflated that it is floating hundreds of feet above the
ground (trying a visual of an ego like a balloon floating high above) it has
the potential to deflate or pop and come crashing to the ground.
As we are all people and no one is intrinsically better than anyone else,
keeping this grounded feeling will help us avoid our egos floating in the
stratosphere.
When our inflated ego gets ruptured, and life has a way of popping our ego,
or giving us some other form of 'reality adjustment' we come crashing
down. The higher we saw ourselves, the further we have to fall.
It is sadly funny watching people who blurt out that 'they will not be
caught dead doing (enter action here)' often doing that exact activity
shortly after the announcement.
When we accept that we are every-day people with no one being any better
than any others, we will find that there is no ego bubble to burst. We find
that what we see in ourselves is the true us and we have nothing to hide.
Most importantly, when the reality adjustments come (using that trusty ole
2x4), by being grounded and down to earth, our fall into reality is a small
one. If we allow ourselves to be deluded that we are something better than
everyone else, then when that reality adjustment comes, we come crashing
down.
Remain balanced and be who you are, but remember not to get caught up in
being better than someone else.
We are who we are, and that is fine.
Enjoy!
Sanford Berenberg
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