Egolution !

                When you are a little kid going to school and your partner takes a pencil from your pencil box and keeps it in his, what do you do ? You fight to get it back, get into a tiff and get punished when the teacher comes along.

Consolidated loss :  Both knell down for 1 hour in front of the class  – child ego.

                Then you grow up into a smart teenager, get your first bike, toil hard and get a lovelly girlfriend. Alls fine until the college bully starts hitting on her. You stand up to protect her, get into a tiff and fight it out.

Consolidated loss : A few broken bones and a week long detention – teenage ego.

                You pass your graduation, get a high flying job , churn out some good work, just to realize that your boss and the person sitting next to you gets all the credits and perks. You get into a tiff with your HR(those who don’t stay in a perpetual conflict with themselves), and give in or get out.

Consolidated loss : Your job and some internal peace – professional ego.

                You make some money, get married and buy a land for your new home, just to realize that after coming back to the place after 6 months, the neighbors’ newly built boundary walls encroach by 3 meters. You get into a tiff and take him to court and settle it out.

Consolidated loss : Huge pile of lawyer’s fees, peace of mind and slight amount of social humiliation - Common man ego

              You inherit one of the biggest businesses in the country from your father, become one of the richest person on earth and still you need the government to interfere and solve out an internal family MoU you signed with your brother. – God knows which Ego !

                You step into independence after huge amount of sacrifices, unshakable will power of great men and stand up tall for yourself and breathe a long sigh of freedom, just to realize that all your neighbors’ want to amputate some part of you for themselves. One asks for your head and the other for your arm. You have no choice but to get into a tiff. Your big father turns up and scolds your neighbors, asks them not to wish to steal again(While giving them chocolates toys(non-military aid for pak – ya right !). You give everything to protect yourself, be really good and not even eye the others hoping that your good karma will do justice to you eventually.

Consolidated loss  : Thousands of lives, disruption of international peace – international ego.

                Author Guru Charan Das has mentioned an amazing thing in his book - India Unbound : ‘When a father makes a mistake, the entire family suffers, but when a national leader makes a mistake, the entire generation suffers. ’

                We call small kids immature, undisciplined and stupid for fighting over petty erasers and pencils. What should we call the bigger evolved ones then ? Maybe, if we really wish to upgrade our scale of evolution, then we seriously need to downgrade our scale of ‘egolution’.