We. But not necessarily because we had a choice, or considered it to be the best thing for us.
It’s because it’s what worked in a given scenario.
For example, peer pressure, right? That makes many people smokers in teenage years. This isn’t because we think it would be good for our nature to smoke. Or even that it IS our nature to smoke cigarettes. It is to fit in with the crowd. Society. Peers. This then is where you build your first part of an Ego.
People defend their addictions quite heavily, especially smoking for example. Despite knowing it’s bad and potentially (I don’t know) the fact that it’s not who they are deep down. Or even want to be?
Then again, this is all guesswork on other people.
FOR ME, I realised many parts of my ego don’t serve myself. For example, being the strong, iron fist ruler at home does serve sexually in a way, and I know that from evidence. But it didn’t make me happy underneath. Tons of sex/pleasures only make you happy for so long.
Genuinely being a higher vibration keeps on giving. FOR ME. Because it’s my nature.
Thus I need to kill parts of that Ego that thinks I need to control my wife/women to get from them what I want. An Ego I built over time by learning that it works.
Not everything that works makes you happy tho