Posts
I'm a Superstar.....Vanity
Week Seven of the Seven Deadly Sin Series, this is a momentous occasion to be sure!! I am behind, today is Wednesday not Terrible Tuesday, but in all honesty this was the best post to be late on because it shows how self absorbed I am. I am a workaholic and proud of it, so if other things need to be put on the back shelf while I superstar shine at work well then so be it.
From my new favorite website: deadlysins.com
What it is: Pride is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity.
Why you do it: Well-meaning elementary school teachers told you to "believe in yourself."
Your punishment in Hell will be: You'll be broken on the wheel.
The Travelers' Guide to Hell says that Pride is "the mother of all sins... the thin line between righteousness and self-righteousness."
Vanity/Pride, this really is the attribute I most need to work on. I have to be the best at whatever I do, I can't even tell you where that comes from, but if I am not the best then I will nearly kill myself until I am. I never take all of the credit for my achievements I know that it takes a team, but even in that there is that pride factor. My Team! I feel a little sorry for my future children, I don't take well to halfass anything, give it your all and I will be happy. I have five younger brothers and I know that I have driven a few of them crazy with my "passionate" personality.
I call it Passion; determination = passion, bossy = passion, overbearing = passion, meticulous = passion, the best = passion. Do you see a pattern here? I do not take on a task, a goal, a job, or a project unless it taps into my "passion". I don't always start out the best at what I do, but if I am stepping up to the plate I will go head first and all in so I can become the best. I can't begin to tell you how much stress this creates in my life, I think part of it is the addiction to adrenaline. If I look at non-work areas of my life I am an adventure/adrenaline junkie, skydiving, rock climbing, flying lessons, traveling solo, temples/pyramids, deep jungle treks, active volcano climbs, shark/deep/wreck/drift dives, and on and on. If it scares me I want to do it. I have this insatiable need to conquer my fears, to meet challenges head on, internally I think it proves I am bad ass. Little gal syndrome much?
If I went a little Jung here it is probably some deep seeded childhood, collective unconscious, past life thing rearing its head in this incarnation. The one area in my life that I do not have that all consuming jump right in mentality is in the relationship zone. I am the exact opposite, cautious, critical, and standoffish. I jumped in when I was younger and then decided it got in the way so shelved it. It is driving my mother crazy-she's starting to get that I'll never have grandchildren fever thing. In many of my sin posts I have talked about balance and moderation this is a perfect example of needing both. Intellectually I know that being the best at anything really has no intrinsic value it is a compulsion, not the worst one out there, but still a trait that should be tempered a bit. I also understand that the relationships in your life, family, friends, and loved ones hold the most value in the greater scheme of things. I will always believe that anything worth doing should be done passionately, now I just need to spread that passion throughout my life and I should be just fine.
So that's it, you have seen my posts on all seven sins. This has been the hardest undertaking to date on my blog journey, but well worth the occasional discomfort. I want to thank Caffeine Court for getting this going, Lunanik and Huckdoll for throwing it out there to the rest of us. It's been fun ladies....but I feel like I just got my sin hall pass for the rest of the year!!
To feed into my vanity even further Tim Fox over there at Sogeshirts has posted a review of my blog. He didn't call me a superstar in so many words but its there you can tell he wanted to(ha,ha)....Stars are really aligned for this post today!!
Don’t forget to check out the other Sin Sisters: (They probably did their post yesterday)
7 comments:
I guess I am guilty of this one. Actually being the "glass is half full" kind of guy that I am, there were a few of the sin posts that I did not really have a problem with the sin that was being discussed. Of course my warped perception of things sometimes gets in the way of "standard thought". =0) By the way, you are a Super Star and for all the right reasons. By being the Best at what you do, I see a lot of people benefiting from your efforts. Take care my friend. =0)
"I call it Passion; determination = passion, bossy = passion, overbearing = passion, meticulous = passion, the best = passion."
I appreciate that. Everyone does everything half assed now adays, so when I see someone who busts their tail I give them props.
I think this is your best sins post yet!
I, on the other hand, am a bad, bad seven sinner...I'm behind by two weeks. Yikes.
Interesting post! I think some people are guilty of this without even knowing it! Whenever I think of vanity and pride negatively I think of the movie "Devil's Advocate".
Well done, once again. I enjoyed reading all your posts. -Stew
Great post! You sound so driven and I wish I were a bit more. I do have some of this vanity that I really need to work on myself.
So funny, so right on, so right inside my head. My endless desire to be the best at everything I do recently resulted in a barrage of barium x-rays, ultrasounds, CT Scans, a HIDA scan (what fun) and of course, the dreaded endoscopy. Diagnosis? A Gastro-Intestinal Nightmare of Perfectionistic Workaholic Pancreatic Doom. The agony and pain (passion?) of these last few weeks is seriously making me reconsider this whole BE the BEST business. I declare: Slackers are the NEW BLACK!
Post a Comment