To be humble or not

This post is my last post for this weekend. I never thought of writing this as I have already mentioned a Poll on my blog regarding humility. But a post on my friends blog has got me thinking and thinking. Also today I saw a program on NDTV where in I came across something which added to my dilemma. Hence I thought of coming up with this post.

My dilemma is , does being humble and being successful at the same time are contradictory. Does it mean if, I am inclined towards being humble indicate I am away from success. Or if I am successful, am I away from humility.

I did find an answer in my friends blog, saying striking a median does the trick.

Today, I was watching the TV show "Walk the Talk" where in Shekar Gupta, the Editor in chief of The Indian Express was chatting with Sir Mark Tully, former BBC correspondent and writer. Here it was that Sir Mark Tully recalled a quote by Dr Manmohan Singh. I am sorry to say I only heard the quote but not the relevance it made to his conversation. The quote goes like this

" If you follow the middle way you are bound to be hit from the left as well as from the right "

Once again I was in a dilemma, thinking that , if we try to strike a median between humility and success, the above quote indirectly says we are not achieving either of the two.

Well, indeed I am clueless, to be precise at this moment in time, I am aiming to be humble, rest, I will leave it to God, who the almighty decides what next.