@Balikis 5 February 2022 edited

If it is pride, then so be it. **Hello lovely readers and friends, how are you all this beautiful morning.** **Thank you all for the comment, love and uplifting words shown toward me in my last post. It was a sad day but your presence in my life made the hurtful heart a lot bearing.** **Today's article is written based on a story I read on** @Read.Cash **by my lovely friend and family** @gertu13 **on judging others and being judged ourselves. It is a lovely and educative article that might interest you.** **I'm sorry ma'am for calling you out like this but I can't just help it because I dearly appreciate your presence in my life and I see you more than just a reader.** **Now on today's article on pride, I want to bring a bit of myself in😜. I'm both introverted and extroverted. I can work both ways. But most people have always known me to be introverted because of my attitude outside except my friends and families who knows I am plainly not much of it.** The Gist.

**There's was a long time ago in my parent's house. I had lived there then, there was this particular day I went out and on my way back I saw a close friend who I chatted freely with, have always been said to be funny (dunno how true this is). Yeah! My friend was laughing out uncontrollably at whatever have said. Then..... suddenly came in a guy who was passing by, he walked toward us and faced me directly, I could see smiles on his face(probably he heard the discussion with my friend). He said and I quote " So you can talk like this, ehn.. the others will never believe if I told them I heard you speak . We believed you were an introvert or mostly that you have a lot of pride in you. With the way you walk and keep a straight face(have been told that I walk as if I'm modelling)". And in my mind I was like 😂😂😂 (Me, model? Issokay!).** **I was amazed by what the man had said and I asked why they had judge me so freely without knowing a thing about me and also concluded I had pride because of how I walked or the fact that I just face where I was going. He replied, saying he was told I had pride when he questioned the people around him. Before I could talk, my friend beat me to it. Whoever think she has pride for minding her business and going her way needs to rethink because Balikis (me😁) is the most caring, loving, funny, incredible and supportive person I have ever seen, and if she's being termed as one with pride, then so be it!. I felt a butterfly in my heart at my friend's outburst and I hugged her for having my back.** **The guy swallowed hard and said he was sorry, I smiled at him and told him he had nothing to be sorry for. He left us and went his way, I spoke a bit longer with my friend and waved her off.** **Hmmm...** **On my way out one afternoon, I branch a shop to get things to give to someone. I greeted those I met there and was awaiting my turn when I felt a tap on my shoulder, I turned and smiled at the person thinking he wanted to pass but I was met with a smile too, I greeted him and then I remembered he was the guy who saw me with my friend some months back after he reintroduce himself. I smiled and pleaded with him for not remembering him and he just waved it off saying, it was okay. We spoke for awhile and he pointed where he sells to me, and he showed me the people he asked me from.** **I laughed hard when I saw them, this are people I greet if I meet them on the way or when I get things from them. The guy whose name happened to be Tony, asked me why I had laughed so hard and I told him never to mind my outburst. I got what I wanted from the shop and bade him goodbye.** **In life, people will always judge you no matter what, the reason for my outburst was that I notice whenever I went to get something from them, before knowing Tony , I always heard their discussions but I don't budge into it. I believe I wasn't spoken to and I don't like putting my mouth in discussions I wasn't called in. Maybe that's why I was being termed as a prideful person or it is the way I walked.** **Whichever the reason it was, I never asked, and didn't stop buying goods from them and minding my business. .** **We can't be good in everyone's diary, where others may have praised us, loved us, adored us, others could dislike us, paint us bad as much as they could and act like they are the victims.** **As long as you feel peace in your heart and didn't hurt anyone in order to achieve what you want, you are good to go. I know God almighty knows my heart and how mind works because even when they had painted me bad, I still introduce people to buy from them.** To my lovely readers and friends.

**We are all villians in somebody's novel, so don't feel sad whenever you hear someone's opinion about you, you don't have to do them bad or know them before they can decide how to paint you. Just be yourself and pray God will deliver you from the hands of those who are working against you and also won't let your helpers associate with them.** **After all the lion as always been known to be full of pride , but that doesn't hurt him because that how it is and it lives freely in it jungle with or without anyone's permission.** Thanks for reading and stay safe. **Photo source: Unsplash** **Writer: Balikis** **Date: 5 February 2022**.