False Sense Of Confidence: You Ain't So Tough By Heart

I remember back in psychology class, our professor narrated a story of wimp who was built up someone who loved. It turned that the wimp started to grow in confidence but he took for granted that person who gave a lot for him to reach the top and worse of all, he treated her like dirt. The girl saw through him and after realizing what an ungrateful jerk he is, she dumped him. Now he's back to being the wimp that he is and regretting his arrogant behavior. That false sense of confidence that people tend to abuse reminds me of the song "You Ain't So Tough" by Heart.

Apart from not abusing the support people give you and valuing those who value you, I also learn what happens when you get a false sense of confidence. People who wind up like this reminds me of Icarus flying towards the sun. They think that they can conquer the heavens. Then the heat gets too much and they crash back to earth with a literal and emotional splat. The worst part is that no one has their back cause they already turned their backs.

People give us support because they want to help us but that doesn't mean that we automatically turn arrogant and think that we can discard them after our egos inflate. Life has a way of putting us in our place and exposing who we really are. Just because we got people behind our backs doesn't mean that we should act like jerks. Once they're gone, paybacks are going to be a pain! Only then will we really that we're not that tough.