Beauty

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.

~ Jonathan Lethem

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When I saw this in the window of the hair place, it made me chuckle.  It is funny on a number of levels...  The skeleton doesn't have any hair.  The skeleton is either laughing or screaming.  There isn't much you can do - short of paint or a bone saw - to change the way a skeleton looks.

But it made me think of other things, too...  To what extent will people go in the pursuit of a socially-constructed beauty?  How many "bones" are they willing to pay to look the way the world wants them to look?  How different are we, really, under the surface?  Is beauty truly only skin deep?

You know what else is only skin deep?  Skin.