Pride is one of the seven deadly sins. It’s one that we are told that we should have in order to be a more complete person. Messages like “have pride in what you do.” “Have pride in the way you look.” “Have pride in your accomplishments.” These are all valuable to us, in order to achieve, and it’s an attribute that serves us well for the most part. But it’s also one that can go to extremes, when coupled with an over inflated ego, this can lead us down a dark path. Feeling proud is a temporary feeling that needs to be fed, causing the need for more to allow us to continue to feed our egos.
For we Alcoholics, suffer from such a need for acceptance that we go to extremes to ignite these feelings. But most of us have another extreme, which is low self-esteem, increasing the need for more self rightous inflation. This is where alcohol is a great liberator of self-esteem, it elevates us until it destroys us. The principals bring us back to the boundy line of life, where we find balance and gives us sound reasoning to know that pride is not always a virtue and that pride last only so long, but humility never loses it’s virtue.
Peace Out: M copyright 2015