Thoughts about my ego

It's funny watching my ego run rampant.

How it got so excited about all the attention me and my costuming skills got last weekend. This week it has been humming happily listening to more praise from people that saw us... Today when I got my first commission request for another Jiraiya costume it was running laps honking it's horn, shouting "Cosplay no Jutsu... SUCCESS!!!" and making cartwheels.

And it's great feeling being able to enjoy the good feeling it gives me, but also being able to detach myself from it... because it's all fleeting and temporary, it'll probably be gone next week and I'm back to my everyday not so glitzy life. That I am not defined by other people and what they think of me. That I am me, myself and I, and I'm not limited by what my ego wants me to be.

And no, I didn't take the commission. I don't have the time, and I don't need the peanut-money that it would bring me... bur I'm really happy to help people, for free, and give them advice.