“If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self. Humans, however, can’t live very long without some sense of a continuing story. Such stories go beyond the limited rational system (or the systematic rationality) with which you surround yourself; they are crucial keys to sharing time-experience with others.”
-Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
If you have not yourself, then what have you been?
We think that the Ego is a bad thing, and we don’t see what it actually is.
By definition, according to Merriam Webster dictionary, I read that…
”the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world.”
”the one of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that serves as the organized conscious mediator between the person and reality especially by functioning both in the perception of and adaptation to reality”
Well, according to Haruki Murakami himself, the Ego is a good thing.
It will become bad when you lose the narrative of yourself.
In other words, it is essential but also dangerous when it is not used correctly by using your narrative as helpful to you on how you see your surroundings rather than conforming to what it is because you believe that preserving your own mind is essential rather than being infected by the virus of different stereotypes in this world.
Guess what the overall result might be: your health, mental health, or your overall being.
Mark Tacastacas 
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