The self is the inferred subject which is subject to the experience flow of time

The self is created by the [perception-experience-flow] time brings in its river-flow.

When all others abuse-hate on you, all that creates the self-image, as an abstraction which would serve as the 'hypothesized-self' to which all that was received.

The game is like, what must be the self for all of that to have happened to it?

That implied entity is constructed by inference using imagination.

What must it be like to justify all that was received? This is inferred.

Once the self-image is formed and identified/cathected with, the rest of the life is spent attracting the same situations/circumstances/ppl/relations etc. to recreate the same kind of self.

So that the same inference about the self will happen and reconfirm and revalidate its existence.

So those who were treated well in nice circumstances, gravitate to similar analogues as they grow up.

Those who were treated terribly also gravitate to similar analogues once they grow up.

The identification happens in that early-year-relational-environmental situations, 

Thereafter the agency only works to preserving that same image and function.

Good-bad-helpful-useless none of this really means anything. 

Whatever the image identified with is perpetuated-maintained in time.

It is sort of like the GRE score.

Score bad, then even if you score good later, it only averages.

The principles of creation happen within each person.

The memory/remainder and the forward creation process.

Things fade on one end, and get added on the other.

This is the process of time.

Is there any permanent self apart from this flow at different rates?

It is similar to looking out of a train window.

The far away scenery moves slowly, the scenery just in front whizzes past.

But both are passing.