Children live almost entirely in their bodies, feeling and grasping and experiencing the world directly: eating when hungry, playing when bored, sleeping when tired, crying when in pain, laughing when happy. As we grow into adult participants of society, we protect ourselves by constructing and donning a suit of armor: ego. There is a danger however of ego's anxious, malevolent spirit possessing us — so insidiously that we confuse it for our real self. Each blow that dents our armor then also seems to chip away at us, until we lose sight of our selves entirely and become clanking, hollow knights on misguided quests of self-discovery.
Ego, self-discovery, and self-love
Ego, self-discovery, and self-love
Ego, self-discovery, and self-love
Children live almost entirely in their bodies, feeling and grasping and experiencing the world directly: eating when hungry, playing when bored, sleeping when tired, crying when in pain, laughing when happy. As we grow into adult participants of society, we protect ourselves by constructing and donning a suit of armor: ego. There is a danger however of ego's anxious, malevolent spirit possessing us — so insidiously that we confuse it for our real self. Each blow that dents our armor then also seems to chip away at us, until we lose sight of our selves entirely and become clanking, hollow knights on misguided quests of self-discovery.