There are very few people that would ever desire to be humiliated, yet, many a person has had to suffer some degree of form of humiliation, to their chagrin. That said, the very first thing to understand about humiliation is really what it is. Humiliation for the most part is essentially hurt pride, of which, for many a person, their pride being hurt, is extremely painful, inconvenient, unwelcomed, and completely undesired. The reason that so many can’t stand to have their pride trampled upon, has an awful lot to do with the fact that pride represents, at best, not only our inner dignity, but also for those that are extremely prideful, is representative of a form of self-devotion, which thus can easily lend itself to self-glorification.
When we are humiliated, we believe that we have “lost face” with others, because our perception is that we have been taken down from whatever lofty level that we had previously placed ourselves upon, justifiably or not, which hurts us. So too, when we have been humiliated, we often feel an emptiness inside, because what we believed has been lost or perceive as being damaged, is basically our esteemed opinion of our self, replaced by nothing of value, which makes the pain of that humiliation so much worse.
There are plenty of people that believe that once they have been humiliated, they will not soon recover what they once were before, though quite often they do end up being okay. Then there are others that having been humiliated, see this as a fair opportunity to re-evaluate who and what they are, so as to determine as to whether or not they have gone off course, and if so, to address those character faults that need to be improved and worked upon. Indeed, to a large extent, those that have their mind and spirit right, aren’t subject to the feeling of being humiliated, because they do not suffer from useless egotistical attachments, but rather they are grounded in doing what they can best do to help make society a better place through their participation in it.
We do so find that for some people, being humiliated, is truly a wake-up call, so that rather than striking back against that person or entity that has humiliated them or determining to do so, they see this rather as an opportunity for self-evaluation, and further to the point, as an opportunity to ascertain whether or not such humiliation, may have, in fact, been justified on some level. Those that are “big-headed” are prone to letting their head get ever bigger, unless somebody or something strikes back against them, and has them then to eat some humble pie. Indeed, to be humiliated is not the end of the world, and those that believe that it is, are probably those that are most in need of a serious self-examination. In life, there are often plenty of warnings for those that have veered off of the straight and narrow, of which, one of those warnings, can be humiliation, signifying that even when we believe all is right, perhaps that is not the actual case.