November 15
Katrina,
Pride is a strange god born of both Heaven and Hell. A god that can bless us with necessity, a desire to do a good job, to do a good deed, to follow the right course, and can also curse us with the blinders of ignorance and self-righteousness. Pride can focus our attention on the truth or it can create a long heavy curtain to hide the truth from our eyes, convincing us not to look behind the veil. Pride is a positive and a negative voice, sometimes misused and sometimes misinterpreted, but how it is used is up to each of us.
Each of us has a need for pride, a belief in our self that we are worthy of life, of happiness, of hope. It is pride that will help us to strive to improve, to grow, to learn, to be better tomorrow then what we are today. Pride will help us to continue walking along the road when the journey becomes difficult and the wind becomes strong, and pride will help us to hold on to the hand of hope, the hand that will walk with us through the fires of life. But a positive pride is a seed planted and nurtured by others who believe in us, those who inspire us to believe in our self, those who wish to help us grow.
When no one cares enough for another to plant the positive seed of pride, a spirit feels a hole in the soul; it is a hole needing to be filled but the spirit knows not what to use to bridge the vacancy, the gulf of emptiness that exists. Then, negative pride is born as the spirits of negativity whisper in the ears of the unfortunate words of false esteem and unreal hope, and the soul follows the only voices offering solutions for the void. And this pride feeds on itself, growing selfishly without the humanity of the positive pride. But, even in the brightest light as well as in the most quiet of moments, the negative pride is an empty shell, a poor disguise of the hollow within.
Dear Sister, it is possible for people to change, to improve, to increase their humanity. Is it possible that humanity could conquer the negative voices of pride and help souls to know the honest worthiness of living? Surely, in time, people will learn that being alive is the only necessity for being worthy of happiness, of positive pride, and true esteem. How wonderful the world would be if we instilled into every spirit that they are worthy of pride, worthy of living, worthy of happiness, joy, and hope. When will the human race recognize our need for one another, each of us, all of us?
Sisters,
Christina
This work is fictional. Any resemblance to actual situations or persons, living or dead, is coincidental and unintentional.
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