"God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another."

Those were the words of my favorite writer and author, Williams Shakespeare, in his book, Hamlet. Back then, my friends and I used to joke about it. Even though we loved to read his books and loved him, we felt that statement was just unnecessary.

"It's never going to hold water," Garcia, our Spanish friend, once said. He was the least impressed.

Well, maybe we truly did not understand what Shakespeare meant by that statement. You know, as young people who were too impatient to study and understand the wisdom of the elders, we were never going to comprehend...