Cognitive Dissonance

Last night I had a dream about a former friend of mine. He is classified as former because he made a conscious yet selfish choice that negatively impacted the lives of a few families, including my own, for the sake of his family. In the dream he was scolding me for sone wrong behavior that was being enacted by my brother. The symbolism was thankfully pretty clear to me. My brother is a man who I still feel a fatherly responsibility for even though he is well into his thirties. A criticism on him is equivalent to one of myself due to that feeling. The meaning is a warning, even though my friend was wrong, and has become a symbol of what is wrong, it does not mean I am right. I have my failures and vices. It would be dangerously prideful to ignore them in order to save my esteem of myself.