I think that I chose this lifetime, if we choose our lifetimes, to learn how to transcend my ego pretty sure about this I have been battling with my ego (and my extremely judgmental harsh inner critic) my whole life and I think that in this lifetime I am supposed to transcend my ego If you think about it I gravitate towards people who trigger my ego and I think that this is why, so that I will get sick of and bored of my ego in this lifetime and transcend it