Pride, jealousy & Compartmentalisation the deadly Triad.

Compartmentalization
April 6th, 1917, the United States of America had entered the war with little over 400 nurses in the nurse corps and as the war continued their number rose to approximately 12,000 nurses on active duty in over 198 location, one could only imagine the horror they have seen and the sorrow they have felt, yet they survived atrocities they once thought that the mere shadow of such atrocities would be their end, but how did they do it?, The brave women kept their emotions in check and their sanity sound through compartmentalization, subconsciously aiming to avoid cognitive dissonance they impeded the evident horror from taking over and avoiding paralysis by analysis, that’s how they did it. be it a conscious or an unconscious effort that it is how they managed to overcome it. some after went on lived their lives and some didn’t but this was a perfect instance on how useful a defense mechanism such as compartmentalization can be , however,
“What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others” - Lucretius.

Jealousy
Enter jealousy, the covert nature of this emotion allows it to sneak into one’s pathology unnoticed and unfettered like a snake that doesn’t hiss, a man should always have his guard up against such malevolence, while our guards will never be impervious what we can do is do our best to keep pure and expel the unwelcomed intruders from our hearts because a hardened heart is a miserable heart.

Pride
An inordinate level of self-esteem turns a wise man a fool and a ruler a tyrant but most importantly it prevents man from rectifying oneself because in the eyes of the prideful he is pure of fault that is considered by him to be an attention-worthy fault. so while he might concede a few faults to feed his delusion of honest transparency with oneself , his pride will soon force his hand unknowingly to compartmentalize his jealousy leading to a paradoxical nexus superimposing the truth but not occluding it leaving room for ego to grow and fester like a carcasses in a monsters den. while Pride is not the root of evil it is, however, the sustainer of evil.
Religion has warned us about pride time and time again, while you may not be religious but one should garner wisdom wherever one can find wisdom. The Abrahamic religions made their stance quite clear on the matter.
- “And every time I invited them so you might forgive them, they only put their fingers in their ears. Covering themselves with their garments, grown obstinate, and given over to pride.” [Nooh (71):7] Quran
- “When our signs are recited to such, he turns away full of pride, as if he heard them not…” [Luqmaan (31):7] Quran
- Indeed, He does not love the proud.” [an-Nahl (16):23] Quran
Protect your heart from jealousy, rid yourself of pride and revisit your thoughts after wisely compartmentalizing.
God bless you and guide you all
