All of us have it (ego) and gets defined in different ways. It can either be that we have someone with supreme ego and we call them egoistical or someone with lower or no ego and we put them down saying they have no self-esteem. If someone has too much or too less, it’s all an issue.

Ego is defined as ‘the (good) opinion that you might have about yourself’. This is also a reason it gets linked to self-love and self-esteem sometimes there is a fine line between the two

Sometimes it’s also confused with selfishness and though you can never measure the correct amount if ego present or needed in any particular situation or circumstances it will be defined individually always.

Though the most important factor here would be how we treat our ego in circumstances. Do we let it grow over us and make decisions solely on that? Do we do things in life solely to feed this ego within us?

Because sadly we only love the other person as much as we love ourselves. Because in loving the other person there is a selfish desire wherein they make us feel good and therein feed our ego not directly but indirectly but indirectly.

We do things over the top for few in our lives because that makes us feel good about how much you can love the other person in return to making us feel how good are we to love anyone that much.. We quantify it to feed our egoistical desire to be superior.

And here to distinguish between the fine line between self-love and EGO would be in self-love I hopefully find a balance between loving ourselves enough to let go when the time is right. And while in EGO we might love someone else to derive what we feel we deserve and the sole intention would be to feel superior in any form.

And hence the intent with which we do things make a lot of difference to our actions and our lives.