Pride
Pride
Pride can be good! Pride can be bad! Pride can be pointless!
When you are proud of your land… your religion… your caste… your parentage… a particular person of high repute that you are associated with, etc, your pride is pointless! None of these have anything to do with you! Your personal contribution in all these cases is zero! If any, such pride can be bad. Some of the most destructive emotions invariably stem from such pride.
And then there is pride that can result from self-accomplishment: of personal sacrifice, of hard-work, of abstinence, of your value system, of being honest against all odds…
You could lose yourself to inflammable sectarian emotions that are a result of where nature accidentally placed you… or you could invest yourself in maximizing the sum-total of the endowments that you have been bestowed with!
Where are your emotions rooted? What are you proud of?
