I attempt nothing grandiose with the blog, save to note that in recent weeks I’ve realised just how crucial humility is to the beginnings of dialogue. For some, this may be to state the obvious, but having spent some time with close friends (something that doesn’t occur often enough) I realised that only these people had the ability to make me critically engage (with) myself without immediately eliciting the defensive murmurings of my rampant ego.
So when I recently found myself rebutted for having offered unwanted advice to an acquaintance, it occured to me that humility is not only crucial to one’s ability to critically approach subjects of personal attachment, to accept and reflect upon criticism, but also crucial to the proffering of any initial thought. As HammamAldouri stated, why speak? Do we see reflected on our screens only attempts at self-affirmation? What can I offer this community, no longer (if ever) a community, to reopen the dialogue? Perhaps only the thought that dialogue is necessary, but alone a dialogue in which the buttresses of the ego are made less steady, both in the proffering of the initial gesture and in the gesture’s reception.
There is work to be done…
