Pride
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“The identity is the appearance. The action is the deed. Can we recognize the hero by their looks, or by their actions?” – Modern Romanticism
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“There is a statement: to be proud for what you can do, and to be humble for who you are. Though, what if this was reversed? What if people were proud for who they are, and they were humble about what they can do? Does this not feed into negligence for actions, and then also
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“To divide people in terms of identification, makes a person without a need to act. For to act, makes a person run towards the future. Egotism is connected to doubt, for the reason that egotism will be made for these identities, while to doubt means to doubt one’s ability to act. To act, never means
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“Being prideful in terms of one’s origin, is the same as being proud for pain. Being prideful for one’s origin, such as one’s homeland, one’s family or culture, one’s upbringing, is the same as believing oneself to be unique. How does this fit in with how humility should be for what a person is, while
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“Pride, in terms of identities, has only influence in egotism. For what is pride, in terms of identity? It is the pain of an individual, for each person’s beginning is saturated in the pain of labor. Work caused the blood to spill from the hands, by way of the creation to a foundation, while further
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“Where one should be proud for their deeds, one should be humble for what such actions make the committed person.” – Anonymous It is true in the statement that pride is meant for action, for deeds, for the noble actions that were held of having no choice. One can be internally proud as a hidden
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“While we focus on the sight of a wound, so external upon the skin, we never notice if there’s an infection. Do we notice the virus that crawls in the blood, the sigh of helplessness from one remembered grief?” – Anonymous Reverse psychology in how the “pride rainbow” is shown upon a banner, operates like
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“It is in a man’s instinct, his Nature, and for what he teaches to himself, to suffer less than the ones he’s meant to lead. For what leader suffers the same as his weakened people? A man’s attraction to politics and leadership positions only comes by way of what he teaches himself. He weeps in
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“There was a time when you did not know who a woman was, until you got to know her. There was a time when a woman would not be so direct, did not aspire to be as her mate, her man, in terms of all things she envies about him. To today’s time, when you
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“Why should I be a proud writer, when there are those who’d read my writing, recall a painful memory, and begin to weep to it? Why should I be a proud writer, when there are those who’d read my writing, feel rage for what I say, and thus become my enemy? Why should I be
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“To be proud for the self, to be proud for who one is, is nothing more than the result of what an action did that benefited only the self. How does one go about examples for this? Greed is the best example. For in doing right for another person, in being selfless, should not make
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“To do right for someone else, is never a choice. Who contemplates on what do for someone else? Is love not the most honest of emotions? Is love not the most direct of emotions? Is love not the emotion offering the urge to rush to embrace the vulnerable loved one? If so, then how is
Modern Romanticism 