"Why can't my headphones hear what I'm saying?!"

I have come back to talk about that mighty-powerful unconscious and to some, hard-to-identify characteristic, the ego. I could not help notice two co-workers arguing today. Their voices kept getting louder every time they spoke and eventually one of them walked away saying something along the lines of "I was even trying to be open today and try to communicate well". This was nothing but a case of egoic behavior. Inside our minds, the ego says "but I want my plan to be followed and I want things done this way". Understandably, there are a few areas in which someone who has experience and knowledge about something can explain with patience why something should be done a certain way. However, what comes about even when someone who has credit to their title, is that sometimes we think there is no other way of doing something other than the way we have already thought of how to do it and we argue our point. This also sometimes comes about when someone is sharing their ideal, their lifestyle choices to someone else and hoping that the other person will not only just agree but change their life too! And sometimes, there are people who will keep insisting they know they are "right" in so many different aspects of life. Even if someone doesn't share this by communicating it to someone else, they also may be assuring they are right and the other person is wrong in their minds.
Last night as I took part in a social event held here at the farm I live and work at I could not help but notice the conversation a fellow co-worker/friend, Nelson, was having with an older female (I mean how could I avoid this talk when it was being held at the table I was sitting at!). The basis of this dialogue was about being vegan and vegetarian. As we were all eating, it was asked to Nelson by the older female, if he was vegan. Nelson replied that he is a vegetarian who also enjoys eating fish. The older female shared that she is strictly vegan and also explained why she is. She also stated her case of why eating fish is not a wise decision for anyone. As the conversation moved along, the main basis of the conversation was of the woman, stating that "the eating of animals will soon end and everyone must stop now". As such a shallow statement as that is, it is more of the ego trying to say in other words: "You must not eat animals because I don't because I don't and that is why".
Another example of this is when someone says "You cannot change a person"...how can you change someone? Every individual is different, everyone is met with challenges, everyone deals with their problems their way, that being said, not many people enjoy being "changed" by someone else. The truth is, it may take sometime to get across to someone, to have them hear what one is saying, and to the person who is trying to get through to someone it feels like they are talking to a wall. This is not to say we should only care and look after ourselves. We are all one, nothing is separate, everything in this world is all the same. We are who we are, human beings, so we can just be because we are human BEings. Trying to reach out to someone doesn't mean you will have success at getting through to them nor should that be our mission as individuals, as human beings, we all can just be but we would sometimes rather do, how much doings can we do until we get to be?