Taking Stock of Your Pride
07.10.2022 - 02:39
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Of course, there is an element of empowerment, or rather a positive assertion that “I exist,” with our annual Gay Pride commemoration. Celebrating our collective LGBTQ history with a weekend of partying and marching is all well and good, but I’m reminded of an observation made recently during an online chat. “Someone” (ahem) commented that they must be proud of the size of their … um … “eggplant,” to which “someone” responded that they have their parents to thank for that. The implication being that they were just born this way, blessed with good genetics, and that it was not necessarily anything to be proud of since they had no hand in making it (okay, maybe in fact there was a hand involved, but I digress).
The larger point is that pride (and Pride) should be assigned when one has created something. It isn’t enough to just glide through one’s existence and be proud of a life of mediocrity with no purpose or direction. Nobody likes a scold, and I’m not going to go down that route because #glasshouses and all. However, let’s take a moment and reflect on things to take pride in.
Bettering yourself, whether by becoming sober or seeing a therapist to figure things out, is something to be proud of. The adage that happiness comes from within also implies that pride should emanate from our own self-worth.
Taking time to develop personally is important. Too often our lives consist of a rush to and from work, long days working for someone else (i.e. our corporate overlords), and what little time we have left after paying the bills, grabbing something to eat, and collapsing in front of our favorite series on Netflix (have you seen “Dahmer” yet, by the way?) is quickly dissipated in the effervescence of the immediate. I’m guilty
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