miércoles, 24 de septiembre de 2008

The Price of Pride

Having pride is a good quality. People who have pride make others respect them, and they do things that are right for them. But, people who have too much pride, aren't as good. Because people who have too much pride are egocentric and have a very high eego. And they do things just to show off without caring if they are the right or wrong things. Many of these people after they make a mistake because of their high eego, they suffer great consequences. They realize that having too much pride is not very good. Because they make decisions without being aware of the consequences.
In the myth of Pegaus and Chimaera, I was able to see a case in which someone suffered because of having too much pride. Bellerophon was a great warrior, he could pretty much destroy any monster. But he was very aware of that. He knew that he was very powerful and strong. Also that the Gods liked him. Bellerophon had too much pride, and this led him to have a great eego. He began to consider himself as an equal with the gods.
"At last Bellerophon by his pride and presumption drew upon himself the anger of the gods; it is said he even attempted to fly up into heaven on his winged steed, but Jupiter sent a gadfly which stung Pegasus and made him throw his rider, who became lame and blind in consequence."
Bellerophon was punished by the gods because he had too much pride. He thought he was their equal due to his high eego. But then the gods decided that he had to stop being like that so they punished him. Having pride is good, but having too much pride leads to terrible consequences.

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