Pride was always a sin that I could never understand why it was a sin while growing up. So many people walk around saying that you should take pride in the work that you do. Or be proud of your heritage, having Puerto Rican Pride. Look at my life, there were plenty of times where Pride didn't seem like a bad thing. And of course, as life teaches you, it turned out to be wrong.
Gerard Way, lead singer to the band known as My Chemical Romance once said, “It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”
And how have I, like many people, have lost people because of that same pride. I have alienated close friends because of that said pride. I backed myself into corners that I NEVER needed to be in cause of that pride. I lost myself because of my pride. These are all things that have come about because I was too proud to either except my faults, ask for help or see another way. And these are things that we, as human beings, do on a regular basis.
Pride has taken many people far in life but many times, it has taken more of them down then built them up. Look at our society today. So lost in the brand name culture, the technological advances and the protective walls of ambiguity & social despondence that we as a race have let our pride dictate actions that can be interpreted into downright foolishness.
Oh, Let me buy some sneakers. No. Not the cheap ones. I need those sneakers that are at least $80 to $150 dollars cause then people will think better of me. Too proud to buy affordable shoes that are not as much as an actual utility bill.
Let me go on the computer and find my husband cause it is so much easier for me then getting dressed, go out, actually meeting people and talking to them face to face. I can just sit here and when he wants to see me, I will have him come over and treat me to dinner cause I am so worth it. And if he can't do that, well fuck him cause I am gonna get the best man possible and that man has to take care of me.
DEAR GOD! You have NO IDEA how many times I have heard that scenario in the last 5 years alone from other people that i have come across or heard about through another friend. Pride made this person chose to be lazy. Pride made this person decide that he was gonna let his dates come to him from now on. Pride make this person decide that if his date is gonna be worth anything or move on to some kind of relationship, that his date would have to pay everything for him because he is so full of pride within himself that he felt that he earned the right for someone else to take care of him.
And allow me to tell you, one and all, that that is PURE BULLSHIT!! Pride is only going to get you so far in life and, 9 times out of 10, it is not going to be a good place. There are reasons that Pride is a Deadly Sin and I just gave you quite a few.
So remember ladies and gentlemen, just because you feel the need to be proud, does not mean that you need to be so excessive with it that you will create problems for yourself because it is true what they say:
After Pride, Comes the FALL!
Remember that!
Have yourselves a great day, afternoon and night Boo Boo Kitties!
Seraph (aka Frankie)
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