surprised by joy

On Pride

The flawed man watches on as the race unfolds, wringing his hands in helplessness. Pride is a terrible thing. Pride comes before downfall, but he does not trumpet his arrival, nor does he ever boast of being quicker than Downfall, who is none too good a competitor after all. But sneakily tiptoeing past the finish line, Pride takes utmost delight in his few moments of possessing the entire stage of one flawed man's life. Anger and Selfishness, Pride's elusive cheering team, have started the drumroll behind-the-scenes and upon Pride's silent arrival, break out in cacophony and chaos. And the flawed man whose life is their stage, the race track, cannot help but crumble when Pride drowns under the slower but surer Downfall, who after lagging behind now bursts on the scene in her torrential floods of tears, bitterness, disappointment and much misery. The flaw, was in allowing none but these two runners in his race, for there can then only be a single terrible outcome.

posted by Shi Ning @ 03:38