Hello everyone, I trust you are doing very well today.
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My Christmas activities were normal, but I like the fact that I spent it with my family.
On every Christmas day, we normally go to church for service before we come back to the house to cook. After the service that day, I was sent to the market. I was very happy to go to the market because it had been a very long time since I had gone to the market. After I travelled back from the state I went to, I missed going to so many places, like the market, like the plaza, etc., so I had the opportunity to go to the market to buy some things. As I entered the market, I spent some time there; I met old-time friends, and we spoke at length.
One of the things that happened in the market that was so significant was that I met a group of individuals that were reaching out to the market women that got me, so I spoke with the leader of the group, telling her that I wanted to support the movement. She was so happy about it, as she wanted to announce that there was someone who wanted to support the outreach. I told her no, that she should keep it low.
So many were asking me why I did that; I told them that I love to be anonymous so that I will not really think highly of myself. Because if people start coming to tell me thank you or start coming to greet me for what I did, I will start thinking that, and no matter how or what I say, I will be thinking that I am very important.
But as I came back to the house in the afternoon, I realised that people had already heard about it, but they did not actually know that it was me. When I heard it, I just acted as if I did not know what was happening.
That really taught me something; it taught me that I have a lot of work to do on my mind because there are people who do stuff openly without having to be proud or letting pride set in. I asked one of my friends about it, and then he said that I really need to work on my mind because I may even be proud secretly without knowing. He said that I may even go to another set of people to tell them about what I did anonymously so that people would say that I am not proud.
Since that time, I understood pride to be thinking that you can do what other people cannot do; pride is thinking that you should be known by all means.
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