[9:42:00 PM]
im looking at all thats happening around me..
what do you think is the most pleasant attribute one could have?
Im thinking humbleness.
someone without arrogance..
I'm now 21.
And i can assure you that with age, the seed of pride has grown with its roots holding onto the depths of the heart.
ITs roots run so deep that to uproot it itll take a good throttling..
the sense that one is better (much better mind you) than the other.
yet the former comprehend not that the beautiful one in the eyes of one much wiser, much greater is indeed the latter.
It shames me to admit that at times i too have had its seeds planted, have felt the leaves sprouting..and the flower of pride blooms and blossoms with the showers of praises..
yes i am ashamed..
very ashamed..
you might ponder why.
Pride is something one can have.
after all one must have attained an accomplishment to have pleasure and thus entitle themselves to the feeling of pride.
surely pride cannot stand by itself if one has achieved nothing.
yet one can perceive that he or she has succeeded but not realised that in true fact the success is not but a shadow.
a shadow of the victory.
chasing after the shadow will get you neither close to it nor will it give you any satisfaction of achievement.. after all all you have done is exausted yourself..
perhaps im not making any sense at all.
all im saying is that the pride is a deadly sword..
and in it one can neither find peace or happiness..
it was what got iblis thrown out of heaven..
it was what lead many astray..
we don't realise that being proud means to be ungrateful..
simply because we think that we are more worthy
and we think that the cause of our success is us..us alone.
yet we forget that the sole one is god.
without HIM we can't even exist.
let alone succeed.
yet we have this arrogance.
that we are better.
only because we have more.
let it be grades, wealth, beauty
but does more equate to being better?
or is a perception we have sought to see despite the reality.
do you know the most generous amongst us are the poorest?
if you don't believe me. go to someone with almost nothing and tell him that you have nothing.
he will be willing to give you more than what the richest man will be living to give.
you can mark my words.
im very sure.
for ive seen it myself.
i know of poor people who will love you like their own flesh & blood
and i know of rich who are your own flesh who are barren of love.
surprising isn't it.
and we are supposed to be the superior of creatures..
when creatures show love and care to one another despite their "status"..
or maybe its us who deemed ourselves as superior..
out of PRIDE..
..of course.
SPArkling
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