I remember how I used to cherish home cooked food like bhindi, chapati, and dal chawal in my childhood. I generally enjoyed watching those wildlife documentaries on NatGeo and Discovery channel, as I savoured the food prepared by my mom. Once when I was watching on of these documentaries, I heard the narrator saying, “This tigeress will allow this tiger to mate with her because he looks strong and healthy. As a result, the offsprings will be healthy as well.”
Homo sapien or Human is an advanced form of animal. In layman language, we say that Man is a social animal. Undoubtedly, we are far more intelligent beings than the wild animals but sometimes we unintentionally do or promote such stupid things that are utterly harmful for the humanity as a whole.
When you say, “I am fat, and I am okay with it,” you are indirectly saying, “I am unhealthy, and I am okay with it.” It is like saying, “I have some contagious disease, and I am okay with it. It’s your problem if you are getting affected by it.”
If you are a celeb, you should consider that there are a good number of people who look towards you, who idolise you. When you justify obesity, you are directly telling your followers, “It is perfectly fine to be unhealthy, and you should be okay with it.” NO! IT IS NOT OKAY.
I have come across various articles and tweets where people have even glorified obesity with lines like, “Love the way you are!”, “Yes, I am fat. And am proud of it.” Hell broke lose when Bakhtiyaar entered the BiggBoss house and told one of the contestant, Urvashi Dholakia that he is proud that his sister (Delnaaz) is fat.” His exact words were, “Mujhe faqr hai ki meri behen moti hai!” Seriously? Are you kidding me? Humanity didn’t evolve to see this crap.
Now, before you label my views as the body shaming ones, I’d like to make it clear that I am not shaming you in any way. I don’t intend to shame you ever. In fact, I intend to motivate you, and help you to become a healthy human being who will possess the power to attract another healthy human being in order to reproduce healthy offsprings. Please understand this, if you are healthy, you are saving, and helping humanity.
In fact, instead of fight fat shamers, use your energy in fighting for serious issues like those who make fun of handicapped or deformed people. If you suffer from obesity, start doing some physical activity instead of cribbing about how you are fat shamed or justifying obesity by through posts on social media. First of all, it’s very trivial to waste ink on such topics. Instead, you should give the energy in you a proper direction and utilize it in a better way. Start eating healthy, and motivate others to do same. Set up an example for others; think of it as a small, very small contribution towards humanity.
Imagine this scenario — You finally find someone who is ‘okay’ with you being unhealthy. You are in love. The kind of love they talk about in romantic novels. But some years down the lane, your relationship starts suffering due to the disease you developed because of that fat. Now, imagine the emotional and physical trauma your partner will have to go through because of your unneccesary ‘body positivity attitude’- that old crap, “I love the way I am.” And that not getting attracted to unhealthy people is a natural instinct. Listen to me, you can’t help it; and neither will your stupid, self-justifying articles that you throw on our faces for your therapeutic purposes.
Let me tell you that most of the time, when a person engages in a relationship with an unhealthy person, the real reason is their fetish towards fat or big body.
To be very honest, this all comes from their addiction to porn. After unhealthy body positivity movements, porn is ruining humanity, basically, our society as a whole. Fix such people or avoid dating them overall. They will objectify you on every point in your life. Porn is not healthy. Fat is not healthy. So, what can you do? It is simple: Just exercise. Workout to fix your physical health. As for the mind, Meditation is the key for improving mental health