ARE YOU A BRAGGADOCIO?

No one likes a braggadocio!  Have you ever been around a person who would break both arms patting themselves on  the back? Usually you don't have to be introduced to them, because before long, they would've announced loudly, "I AM this VIP, THE BUCKS STOP HERE, YOU NEED ME. I CAN DO THAT! I'VE DONE THIS "...I and I and I and I. Tee-hee!  Let's face it, most of us got a little of that in us, when we are around friends or family and you want to rib them with some cockiness.You let them get mad with you, and saying to self, 'ha ha, got em'! However, whenever you are around a braggadocio, the scene changes from funny to sickening or even pathetic.
It seems like in every conversation, 'I' or 'ME' comes out of their mouth.  My mother had a name for such people. She would say, "they are afflicted with the disease "I-itis" and "ME-itis". There is no cure!

Jesus gave a parable for some who trusted in themselves and thought of themselves to be better than others. So He told the story of  the Pharisee and the tax collector  " Two men went up in the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a (tax collector) publican.  The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God I thank You that I am not like other men.....extortioners, unjust, adulterous or even as this tax collector. I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I possess, (and on and on).
And the tax-collector (publican) standing afar off would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying God, be merciful to me a sinner! I tell you this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who  humbles  himself will be exalted."  Luke 18: 9-14

We need to be known by what we do and not by what we say we do! There is a cure; Let others tell us that we are a Very Important Person.