The couple of persons inside

Our ego. We all have one. Despite our culture's general idea that the ego is just our attitude, pride, or cockiness, the ego is actually much much more. Think of the ego as a split personality, which is a part of our total personality. It's not moving out, God's not going to take it away. The ego is a permanent resident of your life.

With that being said, my ego has been doing a number on me as of late. On one side, the ego tells me I am not good enough, and on the other it tells me to live with wreckless abandon. The ego's sole purpose with all of us is simple: To keep us from ourselves. As long as the ego is active and we aren't paying attention, the ego wins.

This situation basically reflects most of society. We are walking zombies projecting personalities that have nothing to do with who we actually are. Layer upon layer of assumptions, lies, fear and just outright non-reality have masked ourselves to the world where we are almost on a permanent trick or treat ride with our lives.

Who are we? More importantly, who are you? What is that part of you that is beyond form, beyond the noise in your brain, beyond the storyline you tell yourself every moring about who you think you should be?

Are you living right now? Are you even in attendance of your life at this present moment, or is your mind taking you on a ride in a future that doesn't exist, based on a past that is gone as well.

Consider the people and places that surround you. Consider that this very moment, second, millisecond is all that you got. Are you here?

Happy Thanksgiving.

Scott