What is the meaning of pride?

I long for the period of my life when I can accept the man I've become and show pride in myself.

But with that in mind, it raises a much deeper question: what even is the meaning of pride? Does the existence, or rather, the concept of pride even have value within the short period of existence that is life?

And if this pride does have value, then what does that value represent?

How can and should it be measured?

Will this value have any worth at the end?

Or is this value just as insignificant as everything else?

If pride in fact does have value, then:

Does respect for oneself represent pride?

Or do the actions that we make represent what can be used as the substance in which we can take pride? Is it the values, the ideas, the mindset we hold that represent that?

If there were a greater representation of this pride out there that could be used to measure one's own self-worth, should it then be used to measure the overall worth of another person, a society?

What I want to believe is that pride should be measured through humility. I want my pride to be based not on the value of myself, but on how I could increase the value of how others perceive themselves.

I think pride shouldn't be measured by the number of achievements one has made for themselves, but instead, measured by the impact one has on other people.

This concept of pride is valued, even until the end—because a life could either be forgotten or be remembered. A life could be remembered as good, great, and incredible, just as quickly as it could be remembered as bad, horrible, and egregious.

And if a life is remembered as bad, horrible, and egregious, then is it even worth being remembered at all?

The significance of life varies; however, I want to believe that life should be served as a purpose to build up the lives of others, others who are deserving of it. And that the concept of pride should revolve around that.

Pride should serve as a way to measure one's own worth, not by self-achievement but by the ability for one to assist others in their own achievements, to help build their own pride.

That's not saying that our own achievements aren't worth being prideful in- but we should also take pride in achievements that better the lives of the people important to us.

Our actions define us—but our ideas bind us. And the idea that pride should be measured by our ability to cooperate and enlighten the personal value of others who we can trust illustrates the framework we can use to measure pride.

Pride shouldn't be measured by our actions for ourselves, but instead by our humility, diligence, kindness, support, and understanding.

A life without that type of pride in it shouldn't be a life worth remembering. But a life with those concepts within it—is that a life worth being prideful about?