Why do I worry about becoming fat? I can't claim to be insecure, I can't talk about a childhood experience that left me emotionally scarred for life, abusive parents..not even one, a lust for all kinds of fatty food which triggers an alarm response in my system making me skip meals..nope. In fact I can't think of one concrete reason that would make Freud lean forward in his chair and rub his hands together.
BUT I can admit that I have a fear of fat creeping up on me, unheeded, stealthy, molecule by molecule, until one day I will be like the man who couldn't walk out of his apartment cos he couldn't fit into the doorway anymore. Maybe its my generation? Maybe its a symptom of how shallow a person I am (though I honestly have no hang ups with other people being fat)? Maybe the constant presence on the television of stick insects parading around, defining the way women have to look? I don't know.
I know in the larger context this suggests a serious social consequence of the media portayal of 'attractive' women, but sticking (in persistently self centred fashion) to my own narrow perspective, I have to confess that some days when I'm trying on size zero pants in AEO and they fit perfectly, I'm happy with my irrational quirk.
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Me 1st!!!!
Mein Gott, the backlog of stuff to be read on various blogs has become really huge in my absence. Sochna padhega!
Welcome back, Obi. I know what you mean about the backlog! Almost felt like homework y'day :-S
SIZE ZERO???????????????? No way!
@Cloudy: Hehe! Yeah! Really truly :D
Size 0??? Oh My gawd.. Here I thought that size 2 was a myth!!
Now I am depressed..
@Sakshi: LOL! If it makes you feel better, it isnt fun to be IDed everywhere you go, and to have to show a godawful picture of urslf on a DL that everyone proceeds to scrutinize suspiciously!!!! Heh.
:D You know what, just like you, I have no problems with others being fat either - but I don't want to be fat myself. In fact, I shdn't worry abt that, because I'm actually slightly underweight - by 3 Kgs or so, but still, sometimes I worry too. Especially since I'm tall, I think I'd look like a giant if I put on weight :-)
@SS: The funniest part of that is that I think the EXACT SAME thing cept that I'm short, and I think I'll look like a ball if I put on weight. Hehe. This REALLY does say SOMETHING about the effect of scarily thin pop stars/fash models on society in general, but I'm wary of jumping to conclusions.
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