The monkey on your back

What I'm going to write about today was originally intended to be a post on the social media platform Reddit in response to the question "What do people do the hard way because they don't know the easy way?" I came up with a one word answer - relationships. But in expanding on that one word I found myself writing about what can be described as the mythology of self and Ego. I realized in writing about this mythology, which is part of what makes us all human, I realized that I hadn't written that much about self-consciousness. So here we all are and the working title of today's blog post is the mythology of self.

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