Pride

MUSTAFA'S MESSAGE

talks about

PRIDE

"Pride can be many things to different people.

"The pride one has of seeing your children grow up healthy and strong, the pride in one's achievement over many years of personal struggle.

"Then there is the pride which is destructive, where pride in yourself overcomes everything else, where you think you are better than everybody else and that can make you lose touch with reality.

"It can make you aloof, estranged from what is real and positive. It can give you airs and graces that pulls you apart from whom you really are.

"So although pride is necessary for personal growth to feel good about yourself, it must always find its true and natural level and not get out of hand.

"Pride must be the afterthought of good action achieved over a long period of time where perhaps struggle before accomplishment is reached. Then pride is deserved.

"When pride is superficial due to a flash in the pan, it has no concrete bearing and then falls naturally by the wayside.

"There is too much pride in this world especially where families are concerned and where through stubbornness breakdowns in families occur.

"Remember pride which is not accompanied by love and sincerity is futile and can be very damaging indeed.

"So allow a happy balance to occur always and pride will take its natural place and be well deserved.

"God bless, Mustafa."