Sand castles...

The ego appropriates characteristics and habits that like a sand castle built by a child, it assembles grain by grain. Ever strengthening its bastions, this impermanent and tenuous structure grows larger and stronger, expanding and mutating  with each passing moment. And yet however imposing the end result may be, it is still just a sand castle. When the wind and tides of impermanence blow and wash away its grandiosity grain by grain it disappears into its original state...as if it never was.

Somwang
"The White Horses"