“When you’re young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now; crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You’re your own speeding car.” - Margaret Atwood, the Blind Assassin.
Some of us can go deeper than skin deep. We can see you without looking at you and feel you without touching you. Shallow people know only physically touch or physically sight. Rare are those who can fondle beyond the surface and see beyond the outer shell.