Self-image and mirrored image There's a moment when we realize life is not only you, but you and society. That's the principal concept we need to take into account when talking about our image. There is a huge difference between ourselves and the self of us that we project to the rest of people. Including many variables such as self-esteem and the knowledge we have about each enviroment, everyone, even the most secure person in the world, modifies several details about their personality in order to be more appealing, because we all look for social acceptance. Changes also happen to physical appearance, being in most of the cases an act moved towards the approval of society rather than your own. "Will they judge me if I wear this?", "If they think my glasses are stupid, maybe they're right and I should stop wearing them", "I think I'm great but people never pay attention to me, should I lose weight?" are sample thoughts about image running through people in everyday life. We see this kind of behaviours aimed towards social acceptance a lot on teenagers, most of them care about superficial things and brag or compare to others in an attempt to seem cooler. An opressor-opressed structure can be seen in high school as teens usually get power by being mean to quieter or more insecure people. Perhaps this is the reason why there are cheerleaders, sports players, nerds... Or something similar in countries that are not the States. Knowing this sort of discrimination exists, many adolescents pick up roles, performed behaviours and try to pretend to be someone in a lot of cases they aren't. Autenticity is beautiful, but I think it can't ever be shown entirely since socialising involves considering others. However, the key about autenticity is to shorten the gap between your image and the image you mirror to society. In conclusion, the shorter the gap is, the better we'll feel about ourselves