Pride & Appreciation

Pride.

Is pride so important to a person? I believe different people have different values of importance over certain characteristics. I came across a quote which I felt was meaningful and true:

"It's better to lose your Ego to the one you Love, than to lose the one you Love because of Ego."

This made a lot of sense to me, and I'm not shy to say that I am someone who is willing to put all pride and ego down for the one that I love. Well, why not if I find that he is worth it? I've been through it, seen it, done it, felt it. Well, I've lost all of my pride totally, but it doesn't matter. It is just another lesson learnt for me. I will pick myself up from where I fell and come back as a stronger girl.

I do not think that there should be any pride to speak of, when you are with your loved ones, whether it is your other half, or your family. Why should there be? I do not see any reason and I still cant find any.

My buddy asked me to take a tibetan test yesterday. lol. and I tried it. The results of the tests are as follows, in terms of importance: Love, Family, Career, Money, Pride.

How true. I place pride as the least important characteristic, money isn't that important to me either (so long as I've sufficient to lead a comfortable life), career is just for me to balance out my life (not that I need it so badly, but I'll always strive to make it a successful one if I'm at it), the most important is love and family. You may be all down and out, but it is these two that will stay through the hardest and darkest moments in your life, to be there for you giving the support that any human will need, to stand up again. Only with these two can you find career, money and pride. Otherwise, you're just DUST.


Appreciation.

U know.. I really hate people taking me for granted, whether it is at work, at home, or in love, friends, everything. And I feel it is appreciation that makes each other's life better? Like at work, you may not be paid so well, but with appreciation, you'll want to work for your boss willingly and put pride in your work that you do. At home and in love, you'll always do things willingly for your loved ones, but if it is not appreciated, you'll get tired one day, not that you need rewards in return, but it somehow keeps each other going so that you do not feel that you are the only one that is only giving.