Question of the Day: Seven Deadly Sins

Oh, definitely pride. If I have one crutch that I turn to in order to make it through life and help me deal with sticky situations, it's my pride and my overgrown sense of self worth. When you're overbearingly proud, every hurtful occurrence can easily be explained away and swept under the rug by making one of the following statements.

• You don't really hate me. You're just jealous of me and pissed off that you have to be you instead.



• Screw my relationship with you. I'm too good for you anyway, and you should feel lucky I even give you the time of day.



• I don't have to accept your criticism because I'm way more intelligent/talented/successful/attractive than you are. Call me when we're equals andthen we'll talk.



• I didn't get that job/date/opportunity because I'm too pretty/smart/talented for my own good. They were just afraid I won't stick around or allow myself to be taken advantage of.



• I'm not going to bother talking this problem out. Instead I'm just going to storm off in a huff and never speak to you again because the best way to punish you is to simply deprive you of my presence in your life.



• I'll commit to a friendship/relationship/traditional job position once and for all when I find one that's actually worthy of me. In the meantime... whatever.

See how that works? Every time something bad happens or life doesn't work out the way you wanted it to, you just blame it on how jealous people are of your innate superiority over them. It's really actually quite effective and you almost never have to waste time or energy actually crying or feeling depressed.

No... I'm never sarcastic! What would make you ask such a question?