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Unsolicited Thoughts

Ego Centric Cycle

March, 2021

I have a very little notion about Ego-centrism but little I do suggests that individuals should be self-centered or perhaps ego-centric. People should commit transitory ego-centrism to understand themselves because the self is the framework through which we find meaning. But committing too much ego-centrism can be detrimental; you cannot plead not guilty just because you don’t feel like your former self. That’s where the ego-dissolution occurs, but that’s another route.

If being self-centered causes suffering to those around them that person will be identified as Egotistic. Well, it’s just the usual. However, those who are unaware of their egocentrism are far worse than those who are conscious of it. Additionally, I think it is grueling for people who are egotistic and have a savior complex at the same time. People with this trait realize they are being too self-indulgent because they have a savior complex, so they start out by being altruistic but then they have this epiphany that they are embracing altruism too much and need to save themselves hence it causes them to become egotistic again and creates an endless cycle of realization and suffering. So being egotistic should be apropos and not be allowed to supersede a too-in-depth self-journey.