Balloon-like ego was a severe personal problem of mine for long. That ego kept me a butt of many a sleazy joke in the marketplace of the mundane for years. Natural law mercifully interfered and pricked the balloon. My journey toward self-understanding, if not self-realisation, began. A slow and painful journey. It would be rather vainglorious to claim that the journey taught me humility. I’d rather say it opened my eyes to the banal reality that I was just a gargoyle on the magnificen...