But you and everyone else seem to be taxed with the task of acquiring and then shepherding your own ego through... through what? Through time, through circumstances, through life ant is thrown at you? Or through 'samsara' whatever that means? It is a kind of place, or a (theatre) stage, a locale, a proving ground, some even call it a movie - something real but not quite real, half-imagine, a haunt of mysterious forces, gods and demons, of laws and coincidences. If only there were a name for it.