Deadly Sin

Last night, while not being able to sleep, I was thinking about me and my personality. I realized that probably the best and worst thing about it is that I'm extremely proud. I was weighing the pros and the cons:

Pros:

• makes me very ambitious
• makes me resilient to harsh criticism
• allows me to accept the other aspects of my personality
• lets me experience new things without fear of losing myself

Cons:

• I sometimes come off as cocky
• some people try to avoid me because they think I think I'm superior to them

At the time those were the only two cons I could think of, but to me they're pretty big. On the one hand, I've come to really like the person I am and don't want to change. On the other hand, I realize that I'm sometimes an overwhelmingly proud person and I don't want people to think any less of me, or themselves, because of it. Because I do NOT believe, by any stretch of the imagination, that I am in all ways perfect. I've already admitted that pride is one of my major flaws. But I'm not really willing to let go of that pride because it is the only thing that allows me to feel good about myself. I guess it's just that my greatest strength is my greatest flaw and I'm having trouble reconciling that; figuring out how to allow myself to be proud without imposing myself on others.