To Weight or not to Weight

“The more you are...the less you seem.”

I don’t know if it’s a quote that I read somewhere or something that says all that I feel. Over the years, I’ve observed that one’s worth is inversely proportional to one’s weight and so is your standing, your success or your value as a person. 

Ironically, as you gain weight, you start disappearing from the horizon and become invisible one day. You exist as an eyesore physically and without a soul, positive traits or even feelings. And God forbid if you have body pains, it’s all due to the extra weight that you’re lugging around. Explanations like vitamin deficiencies, muscle pulls, anaemia, etc are for all the thin people out there. For us fatties, it’s weight and only weight that literally weighs us down. Any function, personal or professional, you’re required to reign in that willpower and courage and get through the looks and snide comments. It’s a “Herculean” task and why should society decide how we should look like. 

Life seems like a Greek tragedy or a Shakespearean satire and all the effort you have put in to get ready is “Much ado about nothing!” Hey, I’m not promoting obesity or putting down the efforts of people trying to lose weight...I agree that gaining weight has its own inherent complications healthwise and everyone needs to be in good health but judging a person because of those extra pounds is what I object to! Why notice just the flab and not the fab — the smile, wonderful and generous nature, the personal and professional accomplishments, the style and the attitude. 

 Who in this actual world defined beauty as size 0? Or valuable till size 6? I mean, why not look beyond the physical or why actually begin to ignore the physical? Raphelean models or Renaissance muses were certainly not that size and the whole world travels to the Louvre just to admire them! Closer home, Ravi Verma’s paintings and all of the Goddesses we revere are certainly larger than life. Why have we changed our nazariya? Let’s change it again. 

Accept people for who they are as a person, for what they have in them. Accept that they have feelings too...they would also like to be appreciated once in a while for how they look. You know a person can have underlying medical conditions beyond their control and they are not just a numerical entity in terms of their weight but a whole lot more or in the words of Aristotle, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” And he should know what he was talking about coming from the era that celebrated voluptuousness. 

So there you go...just be your own beautiful self. To lose weight or not should be YOUR choice and let it be your decision alone and definitely don’t give anyone the right to judge you for who you are.