The development of a mature person will result in a change in that person’s self-image. Oh dear, that is a bold and argumentative statement.

Let’s just see if the statement has some merit. Each of us has a self-image. We see ourselves in some way – smart, slow, friendly, distant, well-intentioned, happy, sad, lazy, hardworking, misunderstood and loads of other descriptors. We can all pick adjectives that describe us. We might even have taken some personality-profiling questionnaire that gave us other self-descriptors.

So this is the ‘I’ that we see in the mirror in the morning when shaving or putting on the makeup: the ‘I’ that thinks, dreams, talks, feels, believes, acts and is. The ‘I’ that nobody really knows fully, not even the ‘I’ seeing himself in the mirror.

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