PICTURE OF WONDER WOMAN BY Terry Dodson -comic creator
I wanted to touch base on what having too much pride might do to a person or the lack of self confidence and defiance can do. These two characteristic behaviors can take a turn for the worse.
For instance, my first blog post had a lot of grammatical errors; even some errors that I noticed and was wondering why didn't I draft it first and then re-wrote it a couple of times. I know it's because I was impulsive and had a lot on my mind that I wanted to get out. Anyway, being that I aspire to become a professional writer I should be more cautious about how I present my skills.
Anyhow, I have never been shy to have someone read my work and give me constructive criticism. However, whenever it's someone I'm rather close to giving me constructive criticism, quietly inside I'm filled with such an embarrassment that makes me want to blurt out really bad things. (Sort of, what a 10 year old might do) Simply because my pride was hurt, big time.
To know and to admit this to myself, deep down, is to take full responsibility of my inner emotions and not to blame the person who was doing the critiquing. Then I can assess that my pride was hurt because of my lack of confidence in my writing as well as my intellect. The constructive criticism that I received was not meant to downplay my talent and my intellect if anything it was to further my skills with the attention that I need to polish up my writing. I did not let my foolhardy pride and my Ego get the best of me. Therefore, I signed up for a class in How to Improve my writing. It is a non-credit class that will focus on grammar, punctuation, and organization.
Had I let my pride and ego get the best of me, I would have not tried to feed my talent with the basic essentials and most likely become afraid to show that person anymore of my work.
The point I'm trying to make here is, we never give ourselves room enough to be human. With the everyday grind of Today's world and the feats that we accomplish probably makes us feel superhuman; by the end of the day we are too invincible to be plagued by mistakes.
When you are able to be honest with yourself and realize that your Ego has gotten the best of you. Try to let it go, don't be so hard on yourself for being egotistic and rectify the situation. Only then you will find yourself on your way to becoming SUPERHUMAN.
