Pride........pride is a two way street you know the negative and the positive side. It can either go right or well......left (wrong). If you are doing it for them, then you'll live your whole life proving a point. Pride is a good thing, it is a motivation button, where you keep on improving your abilities...to yourself that is. Pride is when you see joy through a mother after graduating, or giving someone else a hand. Too much pride can go left, and too much pride mostly comes from the things that do not belong to you, for instance your parents are wealthy (I don't like the word rich), and you are on a high level and saying "we are rich" (the rich word is for people who got an ego), hun you are not rich your provider is, the person who earns the money. Pride is when you show gratittude, when you are being thankful. Pride is from within and you don't always have to show it, you know it and they might know it too ,so why over do it? Too much pride is from level 1 to level 5 without having experienced level 2,3 and 4. You must know all the stairs, we all know that once in a while you fall. So how will you know what equipment to use to get back on, if you cheated? When everyone uses the word "pride" it often follows a bad comment, and in most cases it is true. Why not give them a reason to keep on guessing? It is not what you say that will be remembered, it is what you do, and you must do YOU, in order to become the best (one of the best advices that my role model has given me). And that my dear friend is pride...in a good manner. Pride doesn't have to be a bad thing, so stop over doing it and just be PROUD.