Heavy ego may deny a person the freedom and right to live a true life. Ego is generally defined as the sense of worth and thus a person thinks that he or she is very important than others. This may make the respective person develop a sense of selfishness as well as encouraging some sense of discrimination since a person views others as worthless. Many people tend live a life based on personal pleasures and hence that is not true living. This is because the person with this heavy ego may end up doing things that hurt other people as well as denying him or herself the chance to express his or her compassion, magnanimous and open-heart to various people across the society.
On the other hand, true living usually generates life in various ways. True living is characterized by positive values which may include focus in the essence that one should develop an appropriate purpose in life. This includes effective decisions and choice that affect people around him or her positively. For one to experience true living, he or she must shift his or her focus to those issues that seem to portray him as selfish to those that make him or her unselfish. Respecting people always generates life in that it promotes friendship among people of different cultures (Manjoo 67).
True living enables a person to express his or her compassion to different people across the society. This is because he or she is able to control his or her ego to a level where they can accommodate every person. Therefore, true living will always care about the welfare of every member of the society excluding self serving activities. It promotes honesty among the society as well as people and thus generates life in the community.
Work Cited
Manjoo, Farhad. True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society. Hoboken, N.J: Wiley,
2008. Internet resource.
