Faces of superiority

Just a few, some I'm immune from and others to which I'm highly prone:

• Trying to answer a riddle challenge.
• Posting the challenge to see how many of your friends fail, as you did, to guess the answer.
• Boasting that you got it right.
• Keeping track of how many of your friends got it wrong, or felt compelled to try and to comply.
• Asking others to take an action demonstrating that they support your cause.
• Refusing to kowtow to such requests.
• Answering yet another variation on the same math question, geography question, etc.
• Knowing that in less than two seconds you can indeed name a state, animal or branch of science that doesn't contain the letter "A."
• Not needing to post it. 
• Coming up with such things just to see how many people feel compelled to try.
• Wanting everyone to know how well you can do something, anything.
• Always evaluating whether you can do it better.
• Or whether you are better.
• Judging others' faults.
• Judging others' judgmentalism.

Oh, I may as well stop. It isn't as if there's any end to the list. I guess that this comes back to Fr. Spitzer's concept of the comparative identity to which many of us - perhaps all of us - tend to fall subject, at least occasionally. That's the disease. Yes, living by the contributive identity is better, but in itself still leaves us susceptible to lapsing. Soaking in the love of God is probably the analgesic, and ultimately the cure, though none of us will probably fully realize it (make it fully real) in this world. 

I need to stop making other things more important.