Well, I'm not a brother, but I don't mind the mistake, since most of my life I wanted to be a male anyway.
Yes, I know it's our responsibility not to curse and not to do other negative things. You're absolutely right about that.
But you know, it's not always easy to remain quiet when other people insult you with curses, sometimes people say such hurtful things to you, it can become difficult not to say anything back, not to react, not to curse back. I'm proud of myself and other people who are able to remain calm in such situations and not to curse and insult back, that's not easy to do.
And no, I didn't say you can be arrogant in a good way, I said you can be just proud about something difficult you've achieved or overcome. :)
Just something I wanted to say, which is a bit off topic, is that mostly we look at other peoples faults and negative things in life. Whenever someone makes a mistake or whenever someone is falsely accused of making a mistake which never occurred, people only look at that. I think it's important to focus on something positive too, when there is something positive, that should be acknowledged too. There often seems to be much more attention to negative things in life than on the positive things.
Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know you were a sister.
I agree that being "proud" of that which we did not ourselves accomplish -- like accidents of birth -- are silly. Sometimes I wonder when people say such things ("I'm proud to be an American" or Pakistani or Punjabi etc), what they really mean to say is that they are not ashamed of this circumstance of birth. Which is setting a pretty low, and pathetic, standard of self-esteem.
And I think that pride and religion are antithetical by their very definition. Should be, anyway.
Post of the day. :biggthumb
Technically it was yesterday's post of the day, but I forgot to reply. LOL