Pride

[allerion]

"Pride goeth before the fall" as the saying goes, but I think ego-based pride goeth before the fall, not just any old pride. One can be proud of something while still knowing its weaknesses and faults, and accepting it anyway

Comments

[gelishan]

WHOA. YOU MADE AN LJ ENTRY.

I may or may not be the only one who READS it, but you totally MADE one. ZOMG.

You have lots to be proud of, dear, and I love you. And I am totally going to steal this, because we can all use some egopride.

[allerion]

I've made a few. You are probably the only Grinnellian that reads this.

In the future, please ask me before linking to my LJ on your LJ post and then posting on Plans about that public entry. As this entry stands, I don't mind the Plans community seeing this one.

[gelishan]

Uh. Ok! I'm sorry-- I had assumed that you were like me and when you left LJ entries unlocked you were comfortable with the world seeing them.

[allerion]

In this case, I consider "the world" to be the LJ community. LJ is not my home ranting-post, so I'm not as familiar with the privacy settings, and therefore tend to ignore them.

But no harm, no foul. You just made me have to think about my comfort level with people jumping from LJ to mine, and it's fine. D and J already know about what I've written in this entry, and if they don't know how harmful it was, they haven't been listening to me.

[allerion]

Also, in case you are, don't beat yourself up. That was mostly a "Please be aware of this in the future" kind of thing.

I don't mind an honest mistake every so often. It's on the 3rd or 4th repetition that my irritation starts rolling over into other emotions, or when I start having to play whack-a-mole on similar, but not-quite-the-same mistake. Which I've had to do out here in CA.