To find perfection in my pride
To see nothing in the light
I'll turn it off, in all my spite
In all my spite, I'll turn it off
And the worst part is
Before it gets any better
We're headed for a cliff
And in the free fall
I will realize I'm better off
When I hit the bottom
Pride is the root of all evil. Okay, maybe not the root, but it's pretty close down the soil. Kudos to Hayley and the boys in writing this song, cause it hits right home. I interpret it to say that there's desire for her to turn off her pride. Though in being brutally honest, does it out of spite because it is not something easy to admit and let go. People cling onto pride.
mm..but that's why we all need humiliation and embarassment in our lives. We need hardships and crap to come our way. These are all things that will humble us. Humility is the essence to serving, and serving is the key ingredient in selfless love. Love that isn't without a clanging symbol.
THEN, she writes that being at the bottom is actually the best place to be. We're such prideful people that it takes us being "weak" and hitting the bottom to realize that we need God. Everything good and perfect comes from Him.. but we're so good at forgetting even the simplest of things. We tell ourselves that it was our own doing that brought us to where we are. Foolish.
Im really prideful. I mask it in insecurities, but really.. it just comes down to my desire to come off a certain way. The lesson learned this year (or i should say..learning...), is that pride takes up a lot of room in my heart. Room that can be used to loving my family more or the people in my lives. Space that I can use to stop being so damn selfish and be a little more selfless.
We need humiliation in our lives in order to know humility. When we're humiliated, we acknowledge that we're not as great as we place ourselves to be. Let's kick down our pedestals, shall we?
Hayley, you spoke to me. Too bad I didn't appreciate you when I saw you in concert way back in the days..
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