Humiliation as a Soul Anchor ⚓
We think of humiliation as a wound — something to avoid, hide from, or forget. But there’s another way to see it: as an anchor point. A fixed moment in time where your awareness folds back on itself, and you catch the feeling as it happens.
From that point, people take different paths:
- The Sentinels — always on guard, scanning for the next humiliation.
- The Walkers — shrug it off and keep moving.
- The Laughers — turn it into irony, dissolve the tension with humor.
- The Mathematicians — can’t let it go, so they try to solve it like an equation:
humiliation = fear of ostracization
fear = peer review of the soul
Some never recover from the anchor’s drop. Some quietly rebuild. And some make a comeback so unlikely, it surprises even them.
The truth is, the body can lose stamina — but ideas don’t. Once struck, they begin to drift, multiply, and eventually find their place. I like to imagine that place as God’s filing system for great thoughts.
Humiliation isn’t just pain. It’s also a starting point. The question is: will you stay chained to it, or will you pull it up and sail forward with it?