Pride leads to pain?

When I think of pride I think of it as a quality that many people have. Sometimes it’s so bad that people would rather lose things and suffer instead of admitting they are wrong. The definition of the word pride is a bit vague on how it actually is. Life is powered by so many emotions and sometimes people don’t know how to handle it. Pride to me is something that should be in little quantity. It is fine to have pride in one self or of one’s family. But if someone uses pride in a bad way and loses things in the way, it is not healthy. The question is, does pride lead to pain and suffering? It sure does in my book. Pride, in the play “Antigone,” is prominent in the character Creon. Creon to the reader is taken as someone who is conceited and a person who only thinks of power. He also has so much pride that he would not “bend” to someone else’s priorities and only looked at his own. When he did this he lost his son, wife, and the support of the people. The villagers do not want a king that would rather see his son die than to let someone have their last goodbye. Creon talks about how he does it for the people and the city, but he knows that pride is what is pushing him to make stupid decisions. Antigone also showed this characteristic. The sad part is that there is no difference in the way they acted. She killed herself knowing that her fiancée would the same. Her pride was so large that she would not die by the hands of anyone but her own. Her pride ruined many lives and not only did she leave a sister behind, but she also left no reason for her actions. She was so affected by what happened to her that she was not thinking straight. Pride leads to pain and suffering because losing loved ones is not the only punishment. People that put pride before anything also gets punished with guilt. Guilt is something that I could never live with and I am sure would eat at anyone that actually has a heart. When someone decides to end their life knowing that they would take someone else with them is selfish and they probably will feel guilty as well. Guilt is everywhere and it powers people in the wrong direction. Creon will soon know what it is like to feel guilty. He will probably never recover from what happened as Antigone never recovered from her loss (434).