blooiejagwa wrote:
Dragnet wrote:
Raleigh wrote:
Ego is your sense of self.
It is how you make yourself unique and separate from everyone else in the world, by identifying as you.
The danger is that you can make yourself too unique.
This happens in one of 2 ways:
1. I'm awesome and the rest of you all suck, therefore I deserve special treatment
Or
2. I suck and the rest of you are all awesome, therefore I deserve special treatment.
I have thought about this and I don't think I am one but might objectively be two but not too much cause I obviously feel that the law implies to me and was very up front about that even when breaking (drug) laws. I think everyone is subject to the same laws but also the same freedoms such as not being spied on in the privacy of your own home. So I suppose my ego is healthy? Would doubting yourself being awesome while maintaining equality for all a healthy ego? I feel like two is the side effect of having a low self-esteem, thoughts?
Yeah low self esteem means u prioritize others way too much n give importance to them more than what is healthy. So I don’t understand point #2
For example:
"Everyone is more important and worthy than me, therefore I deserve special treatment.
I deserve to be downtrodden and taken advantage of, but other people don't.
In fact, I will get angry when I see other people being treated badly, but I will tolerate bad treatment directed at myself."
Or
"I always f**k everything up, therefore I deserve special treatment. I will isolate myself from everyone to save them from my horrible presence, and the world will be much better off without me. Everyone else can communicate effectively, and if they can't I will forgive them, but my communication errors can never be forgiven."
_________________
It's like I'm sleepwalking