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Monday, January 11, 2010

EGO, The resident Evil

We often listen this word from different people in our contact but seldom try to find out in our self whether we have possession of it or not?


There might be many thesis written on the subject explaining what it is, how it begun & way to get rid of it.


I have seen a small child who smile & do many things which makes parents happy at the stage when he/she doesn't know the art of talking.

Walk through street, in a car or in a supermarket where a passerby kid look at you & smile...as a result without knowing who that kid is, you too throw a smile in return.
The life seems to be simple & easy if that continues for ever.

It never happens & we found many other happenings round us in different ways.

Few big countries puts embargo on one country.

One big country invades smaller country.


They call it "for the peace of the whole world" or part of their foreign policy.


Few states in a country do not agree with each other on many issues, they contradict each other at different level & try to show their supremacy at each other by various means.


They call it their right & privilege as they contribute major share in the development of the country.


A state has different policy & treatment to various districts/towns under its flagship.


It may happen because there is powerful representation of influential people in law making & implementation from a particular area.


In a Village or place, few powerful always try to crush poor, or at least demonstrate their muscle power whenever required.


They even dont like each other & village is further divided in many small units.


It happens because they want to be known & recognize among a specific group or community.


In a group or community, there are people with different ideas & opinion, they all try to prove their point without even listening to others.


They call it brilliancy, smartness whatever.


In a house, there are few people among the family..they also differ on various family issues & try to overcome each other as & when possible.


We call it self freedom, liberal family etc etc.


In a single human, the heart says something & mind says another.


We ourselves call it conflict of heart & mind!


Now, where is ego?


Actually nobody in the world accept ego in its small three letter shape & real perception.


We do accept it in different ways as Foreign policy, smartness, cleverness, extremism, terrorism, self respect etc etc.


According to me all above can be classified into ego, less or more, but they all synonyms of ego.


An ego, that plays very important role in our life, our social circle, present situation of country & world and the future is fully depend on what is our present.


To talk & discuss about countries it may be a debatable subject however, if we concentrate on individual it may lead us to somewhere because it is ultimately individual who form the group, societies, countries & world.


A person cant be complete without intelligence & emotion he/she carries.


Sometimes intelligence governs a person's emotions & on other hand emotions placed him/her on the top of intelligence.


to take possession of something may be an emotional approach, however to get there requires intelligence.


The process between inception & achievement may bring ego somewhere knowingly & unknowingly.

If one goes to define what ego is, it may take long time with arguments & counter arguments to pin point it because ego for one's perception may not be an ego for other.



It vary's between person to person that how he behaves, perceives & function to prove or to achieve something.


For example, food is required to suppress hunger, clothes required to cover & ceiling is required to shelter.


The basic requirement of a person to live are above three, however, there are unlimited categories within all three basic amenities.


A poor person goes out, do some work to earn his bread is the least can be done to fulfil the first requirement to live but how he earn?


Performing a paid task to get bread, cloth & substantial amount for a ceiling is a base but to continuously doing the same or to achieve more requires intelligence, hard work etc.

The moment we talk about hard work & intelligence, the competition comes in picture.


Either one has to perform continuously or he has to perform better than others to get elevated or at least retain his current position.


It cant be so difficult, but somehow a fear factor comes that force mind to think of loosing what you posses at the moment.

We then forget to go in a normal course & start using our mind to tackle the fear factor.


That fear factor motivates many to take certain steps to keep the current position intact.


Those few steps to protect self may indeed hurt some one knowingly or unknowingly.


If unknowingly, it may be an egoistic behavior for the one affected however if done purposely then it comes under premeditated measures to prove one's point by rejecting some one.


Ego is nothing but a behavior that is inbuilt within human brain but utilization of it vary from person to person.


To take possession or loose possession, to prove oneself or to disapprove someone, to agree or not to agree, to be I or not to be are few examples from the basket of daily life that cater ego.

In general sense, we cant get rid of ego completely because this is the necessity of the day, however this necessity have tremendous side effects that we observe within ourselves, society, community, country & world.

We cant imagine fortune, a day to day life without being associated with current world therefore this way or another we become party in todays EGOISTIC world.

It might seem to be impossible to get rid of this miraculous self destructive word completely but it can be minimized to an extent so that destruction of a human being can be prolonged.

We have to compromise & fight with our desires to minimize its effects, also if at all we can go near to Mother Nature that teaches us to take only what is necessary.



Take what is really required & give back what you can if possible is the only way out from this resident evil.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Zubair,
Thank you for excellent analysis of the necessary evil. You have derived the role of ego at every platform with an unparalleled point of view. I always knew that ego pressurizes us to prove ourselves superior than others but what you have showed in this article is that we can compensate its devious influence by giving back to society.
Good luck and hope to see more of your thoughts in near future.
-Sofia Khatoon