Please read my previous blog (Musings on Friendship before this @ http://ragsgopalan.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-best-friend-my-inflated-ego.html before reading this sequel / part 2.
What is a friend?
A friend is a farmer (tilling our barren mind) & a reformer
Sometimes as brother, sometimes as bouncer
Many times our banner, yet a fine balancer
Not like a master, yet a catalyst for the learner!
Above all for me a friend is a teacher!
Yes, my friend is a teacher helping me to learn the lessons of life!
Yes, my friend is a teacher helping me to learn the essence of life!
Just as I kept thinking, stranger things I am discovering!
Who is my best friend? Who teaches me the best lessons in life?
Who is my best friend?
I am me, I am my inflated ego!
My ego begets desire, desire begets discontentment!
My discontentment begets greed, greed begets possessiveness!
My possessiveness begets jealousy, jealousy begets anger!
My anger begets enemies, enemies beget rivalry!
My rivalries beget success, rivalries beget failures!
My rivalries beget success, success begets pride!
My pride fuels ego, Alas! Success fuels ego!
My rivalries beget failures, failures beget experience!
My experience begets lessons, lessons belittle my ego!
Yo! I have found a friend in my failures!
Yo! I have found a friend in my failures!
For failures begets lessons than a thousand wins!
A lesson in humility, a lesson in contentment
For failures,
Keeping me young and swift of foot!
Presenting me my scarce solitude!
Awarding me my austere aloofness!
Revealing to me my deathless courage!
Withering my laurels at Wuthering heights!
Allowing me to learn at my own pace!
In life,“Where am I?” is the product of my success
“What am I?” is the result of my failure
For I keen to know “What am I?” than ‘Where am I?”
I adore my failures, my inflated ego!
For failures spring from my inflated ego!
I am me, my inflated ego!
Hurrah! I have identified my best friend, in my inflated ego!
I am me, my inflated ego!
Happy reading!
