Ego revolts against nature

A lot of it was growing up.
The tension of one person finding his voice.
There just wasn't enough room in the house for a new ego.
I mean, when you're a kid,
you don't realize sometimes
how much room your ego takes up,
'cause you've only just discovered it.
So you don't have a clue what the normal size is.

You blumber around,
saying this and that,
and don't realize
that other people's egos have adjusted to the headspace.
Which is why so many people with huge egos
need to speak to stadiums
because those are the only places with enough headspace.

And you know,
I'm not knocking ego:
there is a difference between ego and pride.
But a young person's ego,
when he first discovers it,
is like his first car, and
he wants to see what it can do.
And it can do a lot:
of damage or of good.

If it's true,
that pride is what we think of ourselves,
vanity is what is we would like others to think of us,
then ego is simply
what we would like to think of ourselves.

And that's a lot.