Well, my sister has finally joined the blogging world. YAY! Go check ‘er out with this fangoriously awesome link here. I didn’t know this but… it turns out she can be quite funny in her writing (I already knew she was hilarious in person). And so the quote of the day comes from her:
“I prefer to think of the glass as empty and broken. Yes, my glass is broken.”
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Pride and selfishness are some of the hardest things to overcome in life, perhaps because they has so many different faces. And masks too. Sometimes you don’t even know they’ve hit you until you’re lying prostrate on the ground. I think that’s why it’s so hard to take advice or criticism or anything from other people, especially when it doesn’t exactly appeal to your train of thought.
But then when you’re the person giving the advice, you can get blindsided by pride too. If he would have just listened to me…since…uh…I know everything? Oh wait. But still, sometimes it’s hard. Even if you don’t know everything, it seems like you still know a lot more than that guy. And it’s really true (not just saying it) that if he would have listened things would have turned out for the better.
Where does pride go from being justified to being a sin?
Most likely it’s somewhere earlier than we’d want to admit. Some think they’re above that person. Above the whole situation really. But do we have a right to be there? Do we really have a right to try to alter the situation via our own means, when the situation doesn’t really invlove us? Is it selfish? Or is it concern for people involved? Lines look sharp at a quick glance, but upon closer inspection they seem so pixilated and fuzzy.
The thing is, what is “involved”. After all, I might have started the whole thing. Now one person comes out on top and unworried, but the other will end up hurt and destroyed. Is the whole thing bad since it ends negatively? Or was there something worthwhile in it? I hope there was. It might make me feel a bit better.
Um…was that selfish?
That was hypothetical.