Personal Reflection 3/2

Write about a time that your pride had negative consequences (or related to that, your inablity to forgive). You can also write about someone else or write about pride in another book.How was your pride, or the other person's, similiar or different to that of Achilles?

The year was 2002 and i had a new craving, a craving for more poker. Poker was a past-time and I loved playing it. One night while at a nameless friend's house we were intensely into a match, and this particular match had gotten into american currency wagers that were consitantly pilling up into higher and higher stacks. All fun and games were put behind us and a feeling of competitivness that could be cut with a knife was on our shoulders. Finally our hands were shown and as I came to the conclusion that I won I felt like a million bucks.

Now it was time for the next hand to be delt. I was feeling so headstrong and invinsible that I decided to go all in. I could feel the beads of sweat rolling down my fore head as each individual card was laid on the table. Finally the time came for the last card to be revealed....A Queen... I was devestated my hand was completely worthless and I had lost all the money that I had earned. I learned a lesson that night, you should always put your pride behind you and focus on the present.