Trim your ego.

Yeah ego is much like hair. It grows with time, even if you don’t want it to. After a while it starts looking shabby before you chop off the extra hair and start looking good again.

But the difficulty here is that most people won’t tell you that you’ve started to look shabby and a haircut is what you need. You’ll need to figure this out yourself when you look in the mirror everyday.

Same works for your ego. Noone tells you that it’s bigger than requirement and needs to be trimmed. You’ve to look for this into your own self.

This again is not easy to do. We think very highly of ourselves. Finding flaws in ones own approach towards life and people is nothing close to easy.

This is why self awareness, which sounds simple to achieve, is something 95% of us haven’t achieved and aren’t even trying to achieve. Do you know what things make you angry and what things don’t? Has your self respect converted to your ego?

When I ask myself these, I get to know that it’s time I need to trim my ego. I didn’t do anything for it to grow but as I told you, it’s like hair.

But wait, how do you trim ego? Go straight down and apologize to people to whom you think, you were egoistic. Tell them that you acknowledge that your ego hair had grown too long and had to be trimmed. Most will understand and maybe they try to take a lesson or two from you on how they also need to cut their ego hair from time to time. It can make them realize that they look shabby and no one actually told them about it.

I want you to go look into the mirror right now and see if your ego hair has grown too long and is making you look shabby. I’m sure you need a good haircut.

-ChoubeySahab