"Come to Me, all you who are weary and heavy-laden"

Read on a young girl's T-shirt at the local Jewel:

"BEING A PRINCESS IS SO EXHAUSTING"

And you know, really, I think she's got something there.

In fact, I wonder if that very thing - the "exhaustingness" of pride - is one of the humbler reasons why humility has been so popular down through the ages. (And also - given how much we celebrate the Strenuous Life in these times - why it's so hugely unpopular today?)

(And, no, I didn't say any of those things to her.)