Do Good Men Have Ego?

                      

Our Knowledge of Ego

         

We have been brought up with the knowledge that ‘Ego’ is bad and only bad men have it. But is this what we see actually? Let us look around, see, watch and think about this very important yet invisible asset that human beings have.

Few days back, while travelling in the Shatabdi train, my fellow passengers were talking about the problems being created by the ego of various professors and functionaries in their university.   I thought they were going to attend some workshop or seminar on Ego, but when asked it turned out that they were going to attend a seminar on computers. I asked them that if Ego creates so many problems in the growth of an institution why do we not discuss and conduct workshops and seminars on EGO.

Let Us-

Long ago I visited a kid’s play store. There were two twin children around the age of 3 - 4 years, one of them was sitting in a pram and the other was asking her to get up so that she could sit. But the child sitting in the pram was asking the other child to not even touch the pram! I asked the child who was asking for the pram to sit in the other pram which was lying next to her, but she refused to sit in that pram as she wanted to sit in the pram in which her sibling was sitting. I will be doing injustice to team Kejriwal, if I say that the duo was Kejriwal and co as children.

 We can see it happening around us daily. But we feel shocked when good men like Kejriwal and co. display Ego, because we are always told that good men do not have ego. While the fact is that ego is nature’s most important attribute given to human being for some purpose.

 Nature’s Purpose

Ego is like a fence to the newly planted seed, to protect it from the other, so that it can grow in strength to take care of itself. But we forget as we grow that tree does not need the fence. But we still go on keeping the fence; rather we make it stronger – as we see our most powerful people carrying a lot of security with them.

Ego, Nature and Society

Ego is given by nature for the survival of the helpless, other dependent child. It is to be dropped when one becomes independent and does not feel threatened by the other. But then why do even good men like Kejriwal hold on to ego? Perhaps, they also feel as threatened as others not so good men in politics.

Sould we not say that “ Those who keep their Ego even after growing up are not Good  men “