A Long Neck

We are not our bodies.

We are not fat.  We are not skinny.  We are not bald, nor are we hairy.  We are not tall or short, attractive or ugly, strong or weak, young or old.  We are not even men or women.

But as long as we keep identifying ourselves with the bodies in which the consciousness that we are aware of happens to reside, we will continue to suffer and be limited by the labels applied to those bodies, and we will be vulnerable to the scams and contrivances of advertisers, to peer pressure, and to crises of self esteem, and we will fear for our eventual death.

Corollary lesson:  A great play does not fret over the conclusion of its last Act.