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This Is My Life, Rated
Life:	7.9
Mind:	8
Body:	8.2
Spirit:	8.8
Friends/Family:	7.1
Love:	7.3
Finance:	8.2
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Rate My Life Quiz - Final Results Interesting waste of time for me. The very essence of the test is skewed from perspective. I could take it again right now and have different results. I never put much stock in these things but it is always fun to see the results. However, I am glad that I rated high spiritually and that I am not suicidal daily (one of the questions).
Friends and family would be very different, BTW, if not for the Christmas Holiday.

Uglies Young Adult I came across this post in Boing Boing. It is in essence a read for teens that is based on teens raised by the state and forced to undergo cosmetic surgery to make them perfect physically.

Uglies is the story of a dystopian world where children are raised by the state and subjected to mandatory cosmetic surgery at 16, wherein they are rendered physically “perfect” on the basis that symmetrical, statistically average people with giant eyes are charismatic, convincing, and are afforded advantages by their peers; in the twisted logic of the Westerfeld’s state, imposing this surgery on all creates an egalitarian basis for society. No one is heeded merely because she is beautiful; no idea is disregarded because it originates with someone who is ugly.

Very interesting ideas in this. It seems very much a reflection of how adults impose their beauty myths onto teens and how they struggle with it. What this says about the reports of rampant depression of teens reported lately is very unsettling and breaks the myth of it being all about eating disorders with girls.