Hello, I haven't posted in a while, and that's my fault. I guess that I was confused about a lot of things, and the worst part is that I didn't even think that I was confused. As John Locke from LOST said "Insane people think that they're becoming sane", and I realize how that applies here.
But I'm glad that I went through this phase, it helped me realize when there is a problem in my life. We can't all learn the easy way, and sometimes it just is better to learn from bad experiences, it is what makes us appreciate the better moments more.
Hopefully, some of you are interested in what actually happened. For the most part, it was my just plain crappy attitude. It all started when this year, a lot of good things started happening. I got a job, I made the top band in the state, I made Varsity tennis, I got worlds better at programming, and a lot of things just worked out. And its these things that get us off the most, because we can draw conclusions from this that lead us to think things that aren't true.
When these good things happen, there is an overwhelming feeling of "I did something well," which makes us feel good, and is great for optimism, but we can focus too much on the "I" part than the "something well". And that can lead to arrogance.
Arrogance is an interesting thing because a lot of the time, you can be arrogant about something that you did that deserves credit. And we can get stuck on this, and when people mention your arrogance, you can just think to yourself that you have the right to be arrogant, which belongs to nobody. Its just something that we can all be so much better about.
And wow, what a great life everyone has today. This sounds so cliche, but its true. It is so true. We have so much to experience, so many people to meet, people to love, people to forgive, people to thank, people to help, that it makes every part about our lives just great.
And we can all take something from this. Arrogance is such an awful thing to have going around, because it feeds itself. Instead we need to be optimistic about ourselves and appreciative instead of pessimistic and expectant. Because that's what makes people truly happy; it makes people around us happy.
I just hope that everyone can see how we can see less of ourselves and see our friends, the ones that have stayed with us, the people that forgive us, the people that put up with you every day of your life, the people that are so great for us to have in our lives, and to never see ourselves above any of these people, because there is so much more to our lives than just us. So much more.
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