People can hardly differentiate
between self respect and pride, some take pride for self-respect, while others
mistake pride for self-respect. Pride which people usually say it comes before
fall, has a lot of negative ways which it can affect you. I will tell you,
every human has sense of pride, but the big question is, are you using your
pride rightly or your pride is using you wrongly? People who uses their pride
rightly are people we describe to have self-respect. I will give you an example
of what I describe as self-respect. For instance, you went to an open party
with your friends, or probably a friend’s birthday, and due to the fun and
happiness, everyone was drunk, you knew your responsibility (alcohol limit) so
you kept to it, and your friends are still adding to what they already had, but
you stopped at your limit. Guess what, someone in the party will always
describe you with one word “PRIDE”. He or she will say you have so much pride
that you don’t just want to tag along with your friends. Not knowing you are
only trying to give yourself some respect not to get drunk and at the end start
messing up.
And in other words pride is a very big
problem I see around the world today. I have heard lot of stories from people
regretting mistakes they have made due to pride. Because of pride, sometimes we
do things we are not supposed to do, or letting go of something we are suppose
to hold on to. Pride might be reason you lost that job, what about that your
last relationship that just crashed like an airplane? Or because of what you
proudly said you could not do what you love till today, pride don’t not make
you it destroys you.
But sometime pride is what we need to
deal with some issues. So I am here to tell you today, pride which I will describe
as a software our creator installed in us, should be used at the perfect
situation and time, then it will be describe as “Self-Respect”.