A NOTE ON BOASTING?

 

          A NOTE ON BOASTING?

Boasting is a personal quality. One who boasts is excessively proud and self-satisfied about his achievements.

The synonyms of boasting are bragging,  exaggerating, talking big and  blowing one’s own trumpet.

Boasting is also like self-praise, self-pride and egotism.

In this world of chops and changes one should abstain from boasting.   Here, nothing is stable. Nothing is in the total control of man. God is the supreme controller of everything. Nothing happens without His blessings.  

Human beings are only instruments of creation. Their qualities, assets, merits, skills, abilities, etc. are the gifts of God.

Moreover, no man on earth is self-sufficient. He is dependent upon a number of fellow human beings for not only his personal needs but also the social achievements sought  by him.

Humility rather than pride is an admirable human quality. Remember, ‘‘pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.” (English statesman Lord Bolingbroke 1678-1751.}

Finally, what the Athenian orator Aeschines (389-314 B.C. ) said: Men of real merit, whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge are not yet to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

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G.R.Kanwal

23^rd May 2024