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We construct through fantasy, through imagination, through wishing, wanting an image over time, much time. This encompasses, a great part of our childhood is the creation, modification, renovation, etc. of our self-image. We gradually adopt roles and we play out those roles under just incredibly varied circumstances so that the image we have of ourselves, while it may in words when we are confronted with a question, what is your self-image, we often are able to put down a list, a number of qualities and attributes that we think are part of what we really are. 

The image that we have of ourselves is in the main the farthest thing from what we really are. We create our self image over much time, through much of our childhood even into adulthood and depending on the circumstance then and how we are best able to deal with that situation to maintain a singular position, a position that is justified or in authority or forgiving or attaining, whatever, we gradually adopt roles and we play out those roles under just incredibly varied circumstances so that the image we have of ourselves, while it may in words when we are confronted with a question, what is your self image, we often are able to put down a list, a number of qualities and attributes that we ‘think’ are part of what we really are. They are the image that we like to present to ourselves, in effect, that we’re honest, straightforward, hard working, sincere, etc., etc. When in deed from moment to moment, depending on the event, depending on the interaction with the outside world or other people, we may manifest precisely the opposite characteristics of another image. So the question goes back to how I began, that our self image is a figment and there is no real relationship in ordinary life to what we really are.