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It's a matter of being practical. While it's impossible to banish our emotions or our ego, in most situations they are at best inconvenient; at worst fatal. However, if you learn to think of things from a realistic/practical standpoint instead of an emotional one, things have a tendency to get done faster and with less effort.
If it helps at all, think of asking for help as using other people (rather than depending on them). That's how I tend to think of it, anyway. I will do what it takes and use who I need to in order to get what I want. Thought of this way, pride isn't much of an issue anymore.
Put simply, a lot of our 'problems' would simply vanish if we didn't have to deal with emotions. While we can't get rid of emotions entirely, learning to control them effectively will grant you quite an advantage against most other people - and therefore result in less pain and hardship for you.
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Sure I have a heart; it's floating in a jar in my closet, along with my tonsils, my appendix, and all of the other useless organs I ripped out.
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