People believe themselves to be very complex, understanding, and basically their own image.

This is almost never true.

We base ourselves off of thing we see in society and try to become more like things that appeal to us. Wether we try to or not, we are conforming to the rest of society. People will do their best to stay in their zone of comfort at work, school, public, and in other peoples opinions.

Don't believe me? Remember the last time a friend jokingly took an embarrassing picture and said they'd put it on Facebook or Instagram after letting you see it? What was your first reaction? Probably telling them to delete it.

We as humans give ourselves our own image that only ourselves see us as, not other people. Like when you have a bad hair day, to most people who don't know you, they don't even care. People will pay little attention to you unless prompted to do so.