What I have learned/What has been reinforced in the past week or so.

The ego v. the heart. And I'm not talking about just in a relationship. This has to do with everyday life. All types of situations and interactions.

The ego is the bodyguard. Sits fat and happy in front of the fragile heart. The ego builds its walls with identities: I Am a Writer. I Am a Singer. I Am a CEO. I Am.... *fill in your identity.* You become your ego.. Your ego swallows you whole and sometimes there is no telling where yourself starts and your ego ends. Your ego identifies who you are. Your ego makes you unique. It makes you stand out from the crowd because of your unique combination of capabilities and accomplishments. Your ego is presented to the masses and who you ARE.. you ARE something. Always have TO BE something.

Your heart sits in its chamber behind bars, waiting for a moment of release. it watches the ego take lead of any situation, handling it with the utmost elegance and strength. Sometimes, though, the heart watches the ego handle situations in a tantrum rooting from a rage of embarrassment when its identity has been questioned or altered by an outside factor. The heart watches silently behind the ego, occasionally softly whispering advice in the ear of the ego. But the ego is too strong and angry to listen to the heart. The ego cannot see situations for what they actually are. The ego can only see situations as either a protection or threat to the identities he's spent his entire life creating for himself.

The heart never has to do too much work when the ego is strong and forceful. It is not until the ego is tired and worn from the constant battle of keeping its identity safe that the heart finally forces itself free from its chamber and has to figure out a way to sustain life without the ego. The ego is missed because now the heart is fragile and capable of being broken at any moment. However, what the heart did not know at the time of being free is the capability of a heart to mend each broken piece with the help of other hearts that have been freed from their chambers. Each heart works together to find a way to sustain themselves without their ego bodyguards. Each heart is vulnerable, weak, humble, compassionate. Each heart does not know the identities put forth by their own ego bodyguards. Those identities died with the ego. The heart is forced to fiend for itself and find a way to survive on its own without the help of identified walls.

END.