Pride - A Capital Sin

When you have done something awful, just admit that you were wrong. Everybody makes mistakes ... so why carry the burden  ... and distress yourself?

I could not fathom why somebody has to go that length to lie ... or straighten up a situation and make it appear that a WRONG thing is RIGHT.  

Does it bother you that somebody will discover that you can also make mistakes? And that you have to keep and hide it ... to make yourself feel better? 

Or is it your PRIDE ... or your low self-esteem dictating "You need to fib and save face ... retain respect ... or you will be humiliated!"

I would rather cut to the chase and start to accept my mistakes.  It is a tough act when you start spewing lies ... and the next person will come asking the same question ... don't tell me you are going to lie again?  In the process ... you became a serial liar all your life.

This a vicious cycle ... and it needs to stop! PRIDE is the root of all evil. Pride will force you to vacillate and go to extremes. In the far right, pride will either demand you will wear that mask all the time or you make the facade as strong as it can be ... to avoid humiliation. If you waver, on the far left ... pride will make you get cloistered ... or you decided to enter a nunnery (seclusion) just so you will not be exposed.

Or worse... the pride in you will dictate that you will not talk to your family ... lest they will say something that doesn't match your idea of getting a pep talk. You shield yourself from these sermons and in turn, you feel disgusted about yourself, how you allowed your pride to consume you ... and made you become the monster that you are now. 

See what pride can do? Don't feel into the trap ... and for crying out loud ... refuse its invitation.