Quesada Focus What is pride?
What is pride we may wonder? Aren’t there two kinds of pride? Perhaps the first kind of pride is in knowing that whatever we do or have done has come from doing what our intuition or heart has inspired us to do? Surely, it is not wrong to feel pleased about ourselves if our motivation and actions are about helping and showing consideration and love that we feel deep inside? Because aren’t we being what we feel we should be, which is showing to others the person that we are trying to be?
Can’t we love ourselves and feel proud of ourselves when we know that we are manifesting these qualities to give and encourage our family and friends and help them along their way? If our only aim is to bring about peace, love and harmony to those around us then shouldn’t we feel proud that we want to do that? Isn’t that kind of pride good for us? Doesn’t it lift our spirit and give us a sense of wellbeing that cannot be bought?
Surely, the other kind of pride is not a good thing for us, is it? The pride that is destructive. Isn’t it the one that makes us think that we are better than others? The one that makes us look down on them and say ‘Look, at me, how wonderful I am because I am cleverer than you’ or ‘I am better off than you because I have a big house and an expensive car’. Surely this boastful pride must be bad for us? This pride does not come from love and the desire to help and encourage others but from the desire to have power over others and belittle them, doesn’t it? Couldn’t we find ourselves without friends, lonely and isolated? That definitely is not good for us is it? Would we like ourselves if we acted like that towards others? Shouldn’t we decide which kind of pride we want to have? Do we want to feel good about ourselves or bereft and alone? Isn’t that a choice that only we can make?
By Hannah
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