Ego can strike at any time. Sometimes you can feel it coming on….a bad mood mounting after a series of events that haven’t gone your (ego’s) way. Other times it seems to appear as if out of nowhere…you feel yourself emotionally go from zero to sixty in an instant…

One minute you’re fine, the next minute you’re either flying off the handle or waiting for the next available opportunity to unleash the built up emotions…usually on an unsuspecting bystander, who has no idea what just hit them!

I experienced the latter last Saturday…

I woke up fine. Headed over to a local bookstore where I set-up as a vendor to sell some of my wares. Sometime between being set up and waiting for my first customer, a negative emotion started to spark. I started to feel irritated by the slightest things…

I shared something innocuous with a friend and his response irritated me. The subject of our conversation wasn’t about anything that I’m normally vested it, but since my ego was looking for a reason to be mad, it decided to invest in this particular thing in order to have …

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