Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Obesity! Its my dignity.

Do you laugh at a bald cancer patient?
I know, that was insanely insensitive.
What sense does it make to point out fingers at congenitally disabled person?
Ewww! It sounds like a moron, who does that, everybody!

Hi,

I am Sanskriti and it really doesn't matter how much qualified I am or what I am pursuing. My ambitions are burried 6 feet in the ground. The only thing that matters is how my hair are made, "I mean look at her, such an idiotic geek, who does that, stupid!" but the thing that an intelligent girl does is build a puff on her head of the same height as her own. Now you are talking. And the other thing is obviously I should be in same color from top to bottom, starting from my hair band uptil the nail color of my toe. Wear confidence and attitude on your face, mend your body language, this is what I have been taught. But I cannot recall the last time I was evaluated on these points.

I hate you mom for teaching me to go for the right thing. Nobody understood the language of my body, calligraphy matters. As a matter of fact calligraphy that too in their favorite fonts. Mom Dad why would you do this to me? Why did you not tell me to focus on what others think of me and how will I be judged. I should focus on how everyone else, and everyone obviously constitutes of "the thin ones",  live their lives. I should strive for the ways in which I can prove that I am not a mismatch for this place. And Papa how can you say that I can do whatever I like and you are proud of me. You have no right to say that you love your daughter because she is not beautiful. Papa and especially mom are you insane to define beauty in the terms of my conduct and the values you have taught me. No, I  should worry about how will I get married in two years to come and you are telling me look at the peak and aspire for the best I can get. I am so sorry to say but you made the wrong call.

The make up I wear, the dress I put on is appreciated, but only that is appreciated. The meaning wasn't that complex, "Omg! what a cute top and what a nice color, how pretty your jeans is" but you will remain what you are, protruding belly, double chin, elephant thighs. What made you think you had the right to be understood and looked through your clothes.

I don't understand what is the problem with others if I am overweight. I want to ask all those who don't belong to my community that can you exercise for two hours? Can you all have a schedule of jogging for an hour twice a day? How dumb a person can be to judge body's well-being by its weight! I generally hear, to be speaking in better words, that you don't get sick because you are "healthy". But that obviously means that I don't get sick because I am fat. Please somebody go and tell them we don't get sick because we are constantly working on our fitness, eating only low calorie nutritious food. The funniest thing is I have been made to realize that I am loved by teachers because I am fat. Wow, that was the best thing I would have ever come to know about myself! Moreover, we are never a part of fashionista talks of skinny style icons. Because its not in our syllabus.

Yes, I have facial hair. If I don't want to feel the pain of getting them waxed every fortnight then it doesn't mean I am an illiterate or worthless. Its my wish what I want to do with my body. If you think its ugly then don't look at me. I have my friends who love me like this. Yes, I am not having normal hormones. Yes, I am prone to every deadly disease. I have life threat. Anytime my blood pressure can shoot up, or I can have a stroke. I get hypoglycemic every now and then I get anger outbursts. If I go to a doctor for a very normal influenza kind of thing, then he is going to lecture me about my over eating habits, and my body shape. In the mean time, my infection is cured by itself!*CHUCKLE*

This is for the ones who mock us, "Have the capabilty to feel what we feel, the disciplined life we have, live in our bodies for 24 hours" then if you find anything funny, I will laugh with you. And I bet, let alone feeling all this, you can't even understand. Leave alone understanding it, show us the guts to bear the humiliation we keep gulping because of tongues of mockery and staring eyes everywhere. Trust me and we have to do it since nursery class till present. These are secondary things in the culture I live. The first and foremost thing is how will I get married and give birth. This is for all the girls like me nobody is concerned about your health when they say "You will have problems in the long run."I don't need to specify what it means. Ironic, you know it all, still you push yourself for feeling pathetic and society ridden.

I am confident, I feel it. Nobody can snatch it. I do not fake it for hiding my biggest insecurity, because I have none. I love myself. I am not saying that only we obese have problems in our lives but at least we don't loiter about laughing at others. So, everyone else should have the courtesy to stay away if you can't help.

Obesity is a disease. It may cause many other things but it might be a symptom of many diseases which I and everyone like me are suffering alongwith this. It is eating us but not as much as the environment around is. Its not that we keep sitting and eating. Life never turns this face for us.
Thank you Mummy Papa for making me so capable. I am no more just an ordinary fat girl. I am proud to be an individual. I am an engineer. I am a common person and the thing that is making me extraordinary is not my obesity, but that I have the audacity of not trying to be everyone else. I know I am rejected in this world of perfection. I might not be so intelligent but I have senses. I can feel. Mom, dad, I have seen God, I am living with God. I will make you proud of me.