Definition Essay: How Would You Define Vanity?

To me vanity is when you take pride to far and brag about your accomplishment, as a kid going to church I never understood the full meaning of the word “vanity” because I do not believe I had the mental grasp of the meaning but once I got older I began to understand what it meant. To me it meant taking pride one step farther and speaking or bragging about your accomplishments. It made me feel good to speak of what I have done that no one I know had done. But I never realized in the grand scheme of thing I had really done next to nothing, I would soon realize what ever I had done was done by someone else but better. This is when I would know why we are not supposed to be vein. The term vanity would come to be as I could understand it,is to put someone down with your accomplishment by making them think they would never be able to do what you have done so they do not try. Our meaning on this earth is to empower one another to rise to a higher level. The dictionary defines vanity as excessive pride in one's appearance, qualities, abilities,achievements, etc.; character or quality of being vain(dictionary N.D.). …show more content…
Also “What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises(Ecclesiastes 1 - The Vanity Of Life. (n.d.). This quote to me means that no matter how good you did something the sun will rise again and your works may be forgotten. The function of the word vanity is to describe how to give boundaries to a person's humility. To point out that what he or she does in worthless in the grand scheme of the