Tools

If you reflect on it, our entire value as human beings is independent of our physicality. Our intelligence, our empathy and our charity are three characteristics independent of any external traits; no matter the gender or ethnicity for it does not matter.

Think about Joseph Merrick, the so called "elephant man" who died at age 27 from asphyxiation and a broken neck after having extended his body into a horizontal position. By all accounts he was a lovely human being and yet for many in his Victorian England he may have been at most a side show curiosity.

We develop our sense of self by working on our character and no matter what we decide to do externally to our body those traits are the ones who will bring us the most comfort in life and will be the tools that sustain us. That the world often places more emphasis on the external is so very unfortunate.