“Oh how I wish I was never proud.”
Pride cost me chances I will never get back.
It shut my mouth when I should have begged,
hardened my heart when I should have bowed,
and made me walk away from help just to look strong.
Pride did not save my dignity—it buried my healing.
It made me choose ego over peace, silence over truth,
and now I carry the weight of what humility could have fixed.
Pride is not strength.
It is stubbornness dressed as self-respect.
You are not better than anyone,you are unique, pride is often mistaken to be self respect, but the real self respect is "boundaries " not pride .
_Reform your pride._