Last
night I was chatting with a friend of mine. The topic was “If I am proud?’.
This is the adjective which many people use to describe me. But I decided to
check it out if being proud is really that big mistake or a crime??!!!!
I
posed this question in front of her and the reply she gave to me was enough to
settle me down. YES!!!No change is required in me at all!
The most important
excerpt from that confabulation is-
me-”I hate wen people tell me about my pride!!”
she-”No need of wasting your emotions on these people!!!I think it’s very good to be proud. There should be something about everyone that they are proud of! You cannot be confident unless u has an ornateness known as pride. Still, there is a thin line between arrogance and pride! Most people don’t realize this and hence consider it to be a negative aspect of personality!”
me- ” Cant I satisfy even those who think it to be a negative aspect!!?
She concluded it by this-”It’s impossible to satisfy people. Haven’t u heard the story of the old man and the son and the donkey??? ?It said-’U can please some of the people all the time but of all the people sometimes’. The people who think this are sometimes envious of the fact that they see something which they can’t bring about in themselves”.
me-”I hate wen people tell me about my pride!!”
she-”No need of wasting your emotions on these people!!!I think it’s very good to be proud. There should be something about everyone that they are proud of! You cannot be confident unless u has an ornateness known as pride. Still, there is a thin line between arrogance and pride! Most people don’t realize this and hence consider it to be a negative aspect of personality!”
me- ” Cant I satisfy even those who think it to be a negative aspect!!?
She concluded it by this-”It’s impossible to satisfy people. Haven’t u heard the story of the old man and the son and the donkey??? ?It said-’U can please some of the people all the time but of all the people sometimes’. The people who think this are sometimes envious of the fact that they see something which they can’t bring about in themselves”.
Well after this i would
just say. It’s an individual’s choice! If you wanna really live life according
to the wishes of those shams or your own authentic way!!!
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ReplyDeletehey bro... she said it dead right but i dont know if what she said applies to you. whomsoever you are i have to tell you that this pride is not something which comes from inside you, since it has made you cautious.
ReplyDeleteif this pride were a part of your inner-self then it would have been shining on your face with valour.
first earn it then own it. best of luck
Salman: what you earn and what you don't is all quite subjective!..Is it not the same thing we learnt in CAC!..i think u r also confusing dis pride wd prejudice....Even if a janitor who takes pride in her work is a role model for me! It depends on how you take it...
ReplyDeletebeing proud is definitely not wrong if it makes u realise more about ur being. it gets wrong wen 'only i' comes into picture.
ReplyDeletetill the point u take pride in being one amongst others the feeling is lovable! just wen u 'transcend' into the domain of being 'special', which nobody is, this pride thing becomes an illusion capable only of only creating feeling of fake superiority.
and on the point of earning it- i feel u cant earn smthing for developing pride, if u are earning smthng then u are going into the world of comparative supremacy. comaparative supremacy doesnt breed pride it only ruins ur originality and the inherited ability to feel proud of smthing u really deserve!!