Day 12 of 365: Changeability of Feeling

We experience a continuous evaluation of our experience through our habituated, karmic reactions to things. How does this define the self?  Are we convinced that we are our feelings about things?  Our feelings are so fickle that I personally have a hard time feeling that they define me in any really strong way.  However, I do seem to take them personally in a very instantaneous way.  After they arise, why does the mind take so much care to weave a story or jump to conclusions after a feeling arises?  Why go through this trouble unless it we think it is personal?  I think, among other reasons, we tend to take the feelings so personally because we think we exist already and need to do something with them because they are real.  Where is the experiencer of the feelings (we already looked for it in the body)?  Where is the feeling itself?  If we take the feelings personally because of a causal relationship (feeling and experiencer), apply the causality argument to both and see what happens.  Can we relax enough for there to be an experience of feeling without an experiencer?