3/1-Personal Reflection

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?

When I was in fifth grade I worked very hard at playing the violin in so I could be the best violinist in the class. I achieved my goal and bragged a lot about it to my family and friends. When the year was almost over I had applied to S.D.S.C.P.A (San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts). Normally you would have to audition to get in but I was “so good” that I got a recommendation, was automatically accepted in and got a spot in the orchestra. I would brag and brag and brag about how I didn’t have to audition because I was better than everyone else. So, when sixth grade began I went to my orchestra class expecting to be better than everyone else and still be number one. I was very wrong. I learned that I had to be humble and not brag because I wasn’t the best anymore. Granted I was competing against much older and experienced kids.

My pride was similar to Achilles because it sort of clouded my judgment and made me see myself as higher than other people. But in the end it led to my downfall because I was not number one anymore. In Achilles case he saw others lower than him and didn’t think he could be defeated, but eventually he was.