Pride in all the Right Places...

When you're a ghost on the street, pride is a very real concern, in fact I'm willing to bet the more hardship you've encountered the more pride becomes a concern. The problem with pride is there are about a million ways to have poor pride, and about 12 ways to have positive pride. Without getting into what constitutes self-care and what may mean vanity, I'm willing to say if you're a positive person it's probably self-care, and if you're a negative person it's probably vanity. Or at least what you reflect. Let's be wary of people who ration out pride, even if it's you, the ghost on the street.  Conduct should be appreciated whether it's yours or someone else. We can't necessarily put a price on conduct except to say it makes a better whole. But, for the action oriented in the crowd, we can build whole things while being whole. This means happy workers, happy products. And to be entirely honest, sometimes humans are ignorant, we don't spend the time to have happy workers or happy products. But a happy anecdote I found on facebook is... When you walk alone it's "Race," and when you walk with God it's "Grace."

All this might not help the common man who is struggling to make ends meat, but then again it might. When we put our own pride in the mix and realize our own vanity it helps make whole what once was short. It's not to say humanity is short on pride, or even vanity for that matter, but that we should be aware without rationing. The idiot inside of me is screaming let me engineer something for someone else, but recognizing that I too am short sighted allows me to reach out and hopefully grab something whole. U wish, I wish...