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Pride Essay
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest.” (C.S. Lewis). You could say this quote is profusely precise because while it may be true that pride gives an encouraging feeling of confidence, this self-assurance is generated by your impression of superiority. When this feeling is exaggerated, it leads to arrogance and excessive pomposity, which can cause an individual to experience humility once they recognize they are not as superior as they imagined.
The benign confidence that I possess today is an outcome of my pride. I have always had a substantial amount of insecurity, for my fears have consistently haunted me: fear of embarrassment, fear of not being as good as everyone else… Because of my feelings of inferiority and lack of self-esteem, I never thought I could accomplish something of great significance. That prevented me from doing many things in the past, but one day after seeing a movie in which a boy who had all the odds to ...

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