Can a person’s head be likened to a balloon? Yes.
Balloon: The quantity of air determines its size, and a pin can lead to its demise.
Head (aka ego): Also self-inflated with air… typically hot in nature with an apparently unlimited quantity. An overdose of pride is the pin for this balloon.
For both, deflation is only a matter of time.
How does the Dose know this? First hand, of course. When in my early 20s, I owned a condo and had a professional job complete with my very own secretary. Pride filled my Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade-sized head. It was only a matter of time until my balloon head met its pin, specifically people’s reactions whenever the Dose entered a room providing me the truth and reality that I was not so amazing!
Pride is still no stranger to me and, like all of us, at times my head can be one dose of air away from a pop. So to keep the Dose-head appropriately sized, my pride-o-meter is activated…alerting me to remember those long ago days.
Balloon-heads beware: the pin of pride is there to peck if you don’t keep your ego in check.