He liked also being seen and being congratulated on growing up such a fine looking and fortunate young fellow, for he was not the youth to hide his light under a bushel.
Instead of reading the instruction manual, we try to do it ourselves and waste three hours when we could have humbled ourselves and sharpened our mental saw.
That warmth, that sense of deep gratification and humility, came from the realization that, just as they had been the spark that inspired me then, somewhere out there are others I might inspire.
True release from self-loathing tends to be a great deal more modest: we are only after a sane, fair and more accurate perspective on our ordinary earthly nature.