Good thing that I have pride in myself! Otherwise I would really have a problem with all the arrogance I see. Wait… I do have a problem with it. As with almost every value and principle I was taught growing up the difference between pride and arrogance has blurred quite a bit. You see it is a very good thing to have pride in yourself. And the other side of the coin is that it is not so good to be arrogant. I will give my take on what I see and feel. You can agree or disagree, but I hope to create a thought about it and from that you can help bring about change.
Pride is something that I was shown from family and friends from as early as I can remember. My mother would tell me when I accomplished a task that the feeling I was having was pride! I liked it and from then on I did the best I could,(most of the time) so that I could have that feeling again. Through the years, I have tried to live my life, so that overall I could feel pride in myself as a person. This means that through my actions from day to day I have lived a life to feel pride as a human being. I have many people around me that I can say deserve to be proud of themselves. And there are many that do not and should not be proud of themselves. The funny thing is that the ones deserving are just living their lives and the ones that don’t are shouting about how proud they are and that’s why they cannot be any other way.
You see when you are worthy of feeling pride you are working at it and never telling anyone about it, because it’s your way of life. True pride in oneself goes hand in hand with humility. When you use pride as an excuse, it’s not pride, it’s arrogance! There are so many people with a skewed view of pride that I feel it’s tearing away at our overall ability to get along. I’ve heard it so many times…ohhh he’s not mean it’s just his pride you know!! No he’s an arrogant, self-centered asshole! These people that move about in life as if there is nobody but themselves around is crazy. I was driving home the other day and a woman ran a stop sign, causing me to slam on my brakes so as to avoid a collision. I look at her and she barely noticed I was there because her focus was on her phone. I see them everywhere, not holding a door open for a person who needs a hand. At the grocery store last week I let an elderly lady in line in front of me because she had only two items. And the grumbling from behind me was rediculous. Where is our humanity?
As the technology industry grows, I’m certain that we will have our cell phones embedded in our skulls soon, we will snap our heads to the left to answer, and to the right to hang up. From this people will be more connected to their small group and ignore the rest of the world and we as a people will no longer exist. Pride in living a life of respect and community will disappear. There will be small groups of people thinking they are too proud to connect with anyone that they do not know and not even realize that in fact they are diving deep into the arrogance of their own sef-worth. Thus destroying the fabric on which we were founded.
People need to wake up in America! It is a fact that there are many places in this world that will not allow children to have cell phones. They know that you miss out on the world around you if your are glued to an electronic device. Not in America mind you! Ohh no we cannot do that, because if we did it would make the adults lives more difficult. They would have to talk to their children, take an interest in their lives, not have the ability to be self-absorbed with their own lives, and finally teach their kids that there is right and wrong and how to tell the difference between the two. Thus, from this they would in fact teach the children, how to have pride in themselves as human beings, and not be so arrogant as to think they are the only ones that matter in this world. Thank you and you can leave comments they are welcome!!!
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