Definition Essay On Pride

Pride is a very common train in today’s society. What we, as human beings fail to Realize is that pride is one of the worst emotions that can exist. Pride is an emotion that can fill your mind with so many false and absurd beliefs about yourself. Why is it so common? Well because it gives you the satisfaction of something that may not be true. Pride is a very old word used as a negative connotation and also a positive one. The word pride comes from the word “proud” which was in the old english dictionary and meant “prut”. Prut is a french word that means brave and valiant and brave. As you know brave and valiant are positive meanings, so pride comes from positive connotations according to the french language. In the negative connotation the
word can mean guilt and selfishness. Pride can be differentiated on the act depending on the intention of the act and the personal interests of the person involved in the act.
The original first meaning of the word comes from the negative side. According to the Catholic Bible,¨Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.¨ It is the sin that made Eve eat the forbidden fruit and gave the fruit to Adam. This made pride become the root sin of all the sins we commit and all the sins we will commit in the future. The meaning of pride as a negative connotation today can be in almost everything we do.
If pride is involved in everything we do this society will never be peaceful, and it will lead us to a fantasy world which blinds us to reality.
People often get confused with the negative meaning of pride. Pride is not to be grateful for what you have. Pride is not be thankful for what you have either. These often get confused because of the over affection we give to ourselves. For example being grateful of yourself comes with humbleness and is necessary for a great self esteem, but too much gratefulness can now be known as pride. People also get confused with pride when they are thankful for themselves, but do not show it in fear of being misunderstood by society. The world has many different people and we all have had pride before. To some pride may mean to have confidence, to others pride may mean to be grateful. To me pride is a selfish emotion which leads to make selfish acts. To me the word pride is a negative word since i am very religious, and it is not an emotion that i want to have. To me pride is to be full of yourself and to feel like everything you have is better than what others have. That’s the meaning for me. But another meaning of the word pride is to be brave or to take pride in something that you love like for example being a patriot which is having pride in your country is a positive example of pride. A quote that explains the word pride tome is ¨there is no better test of a man's integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.¨ This quote explains
perfectly of what Pride can do to a man it can reveal his integrity.
Out of all the emotions in the world one of the worst is to have pride. Pride can lead you to horrible acts of selfishness and can lead to many negative philosophies. Pride is an act of not kindness but selfishness. Society should get informed of pride and make sure that it is the last emotion they experience, since pride is so negative and is the root of all evil.