Almost anyone you see, including,
most probably yourself, and particularly I, have an ego - and I’m not saying
it’s bad, nor is occasionally adding a boost to it all bad either. In fact,
most great people I know do it, all the time.
Muhammed Ali didn't
wait for people to say he's the greatest, he said he was even before he knew he
was. He said "it's not bragging if you can back it up." Some tech guy
in Nikita said if God is
in the detail, then he's a god, Chronixx believes that
if dancehall was school they'll be principals, and it's not rare to hear those
into Hip Hop Music claiming
to be rap gods, rap MVPs, etc. I believe it’s ok to go on occasional ego trips
like that - y'know, boost confidence and all.
What's dangerous is massaging the
ego, feeding it at the expense of others, and inflating it to the point of
stupor, thinking that everyone is inferior to you, or should look up to you,
and should prolly bow down to your grace; that’s 7ucked up, really.
I am not gonna lie; mine used to be
as huge and prolly is, still. It makes me act as if I am the standard by which
excellence is measured, or as if anything that isn't in accordance with my set
of specifications is absurd. But the more I grow up, the more I realise how
devilish it gets with excess-ego. Remember how Satan defied God just to prove
the inferiority of man?
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