The idea of having an ego is, I think, at the root of much human suffering, being an inevitable discontinuity between a lifetime that revolves around a single person and a world that does not. In the nature of ideas, however, individual existence is an assumption necessary to social interaction; there can be no personality without ego, no Other without Self.
Thus is born the idea of a consistent identity: burst forth from the creative fount that is the human mind, hemmed in on all sides by social influence, and finally matured into a story of self that reinforces its own limitations in exchange for the society of others.
This is growing-up, deciding who you are & defending your beliefs. It is the search for love, identity-mixing, among solid and inflexible identities.
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