Am I the Me I think I am?

   Sometimes, we hear ourselves the way we want to hear ourselves.  We even create our own reality around our perceptions of ourselves and others.


    Have you ever had an encounter that upset you and afterwards, you replayed it in your mind ... emphasizing certain parts and maybe even recreating certain parts ... in essence, making your own reality, a more flattering reality?  Especially when the real reality is not very flattering.


   This dramatization that I heard on This American Life conveys it pretty well ...

Act Two. The Conversation. from Own Worst Enemy