Besting myself
Amidst the ego and all our biases, it is difficult to pause and reflect. But I have found that if I can create the habit, there are joys ahead.
Tag: Ego
Traveling – in & out
Travel, to me, and specially in the recent past, has been a way not just to journey to new places, but inward too. The last year has been a watershed on both counts, more so the latter. There are definitely miles to go, but I believe that I have made some advances on traveling light.
A plan to be
Being frugal on everything but one’s real wants is a good path to be on, but knowing one’s real and yet, ever changing wants is a not easy. The mind is pulled by paradoxical desires of wanting to belong and stand out, when all it truly wants is to just be! How does one get there?
A devious self
These days when I think of the self, I am regularly reminded of this. I use ‘ego’ interchangeably with ‘self’. Ego as in egotism, not the Freud definition. The inflated view of the self that most of us refer to when we say ‘ego’. While the scientific-philosophical perspective is something I am very interested in, […]
Cult of impersonality
Koramangala rarely disappoints. This time, it was the Uber ride, and the thoughts it sparked. From Whitefield to Koramangala, I repeatedly watched the driver refusing to learn from his mistakes. e.g. sticking to the right lane and getting stuck behind cars waiting to take a U turn, when we had to go straight. Advice was futile. This […]