The word of the week is ego ,this is my first time participating in this type of challenge ,I will do my best on this

What is ego?

This is person self esteem or self important,the idea of filling of your own important and ability , although ego have is good ,have is own important feature

but when it comes to you are filling you are more important than other person ,when you are filling superior,that is when you won't be able to take to correction,you will fill you knows it all that when ego because bad

I believe ego grows we are not born with it , judging from the environment we are the ,kind of people we roll with ,the knowledge we acquire contribute to our value in life which makes some people think they are more important than other ,which makes them think because have more knowledge than him so we are not in thesame class

This type of ego is commonly in Africa expectially elderly people in Africa ,in some school you can't correct your teacher even when you know that what is teaching is wrong because you know he is going to beat you

Correcting and elderly person in Africa of what he did wrong would be consider you are disrespecting him or her , they all assume here that because he or she is older than you he has more knowledge than you in everything ,that is the level of ego in Africa

They are different levels of ego ,when you think you are more important ,for example

Scenario of two man working in the same company one was a worker while the other was security guard in thesame company

The worker observe that the security guard never greet him anytime he enter and exist the company gate because the security guard was the one opening and closing the entry gate

But he greet everyone else who enter and exit the company ,the young elderly everyone but he never greet him

The habit of is Keen observation make him think that he is being ignore or may be disrespect ,he later filling bad anytime he pass through the the man

Am I not worth the respect?” “Do I look, unworthy? Several questions struck through is mind

But one day the man sat down in his car and ask himself some questions
*Has he disrespected me? No
Have I done anything to deserve his respect?
No
Has he hurt my self-esteem? No
Then what is this feeling?

Why do he consider himself so important that people should greet him ? It's his choice who he will greet and who he shall ignore, nothing but illusion feelings

That self-talk comforted him and made him calm
So next time, he felt less hurt when he didn't greet him

This illusionary feeling of excessive self-importance is nothing but ego

By realising that, we are indeed important, but for ourselves, for others, they have a right to decide for themselves.

What is not an ego

Silent is not an ego , some people think because you are silent you are filling pompous that you better than them

Minding your own business is not an ego ,this life if full of scars , trying not to get cut you may decide to mind your own business ,just like me ,when your discussion is not about money ,is about new knowledge I won't be part of that gathering

They are some statement like ,listen before you speak ,if you are not called never go there that was how I play my days and life ,so I never think that can be consider an ego

However our ego is not the issue our illusion of self is that is why we want to get read of it

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