In a wheelchair he sat. No legs. Just thighs. Two young men, probably curious students from out of town, chatted with the homeless man, maybe wanting to get his story.
He is a homeless man. You’d expect nothing more from a man who lives on the street, but this destitute man had the compassion enough to see to it that this young lady got inside the little, crowded shop.
Women, especially in the U.S., have a stricken desire to lose weight. Why? Because they think thinness will make them look beautiful. They are, in a word, vain as anything you can imagine. At work, for instance, I know of one woman who is overweight but not too much, and she makes it no secret that she is trying to lose weight. She won’t look any prettier if she were 120 pounds, I can tell you that. She is so vain. Vain, vain, vain! And it irks me so!
Now I, myself, have settled with my not-so-teeny body and get really annoyed with those women who, out of pure vanity, exercise like hyenas to be thin, and diet like zombies to be skinny. Skinny does not make you pretty! Many overweight women are beautiful, like the passed away Anna Nicole. Her life was not exemplary, but she was, you have to admit, beautiful.
At work, this woman who makes it everybody’s business that she is dieting (with no success–she still is a roly poly) said she had a dream that she was thin. And she looked so….(she stopped there). I can’t say she looked pretty because no matter how thin she got, she would still be below average in looks.
It’s not for health that women diet. No! It’s for vanity’s sake. And it irks me to no end. The world needs a wake up call. Pudgy, but not so much that it causes health concerns, must come back IN!
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We as citizens of the world have risen to eating more and more while putting on enough weight to want to fight it off. Well, this may seem ludicrous, but women of the 15th century, 16th century, and a gazillion other centuries looked beautiful just at their 150 pound to 200 pound weights! Catch any da Vinci portrait painting from the Renaissance era, and you’ll see what I mean: No size 2 Mona Lisa!
So why do we, in this day and age, carry this obsession with morbid thinness? I don’t know, except that it partially has to do with the scare of diabetes, high cholesterol or heart attacks related to obesity. But come on now! Get real! Too many women and men are exercising just for the sake of vanity–not health reasons.
Make your choice. I can tell you, I look better a wee bit healthier as a thick pencil rather than a measly, barely-noticeable toothpick. You probably would look healthier a bit plump, too. So consider, would you rather savor the delectable piece of cheesecake or deny yourself over and over again to the point of sheer thinness-exhaustion? Until you hate depriving yourself? Until you hate the fact that you must deny yourself constantly to be thin?
What does thinness mean, anyway?
