Life throws you many challenges. Most of them, we accept humbly and try to fend it off. Some, we make a mess of it and still hold on to fight it off. And a few of the challenges get under our skin. Literally.
The baggage of those extra kilos under our skin is not only 'figure distorting' but also 'life threatening' as we are told. The booming business of fat burning never fails to get this off your head.
You open TV sets and it will be showing you 'slim and muscular' bodies on 'naaptol'. Order this now on '7373...' and get 70% off. Be it slimming belt or exercise rope or fat burning capsule or body shaping clothes, you feel like all the energy crisis in the world is due to over accumulation of bio energy in human bodies. Newspapers and magazines are not far behind. 'Fat go oil', 'body toner pills' etc are the main revenue sources of print media advertisement, it seems. You take a walk in food section of big bazaar and there you see 'less oily oils' , 'less sugary sugar', what the hell! All biscuits have fiber in it, all breakfast items have more fiber in them, as if we were born to munch wheat bran.
The neighbourhood Shukla aunty is the new local icon. She wakes up at 4 am in the morning, drinks warm water with lemon before relieving herself and launching herself onto the colony roads in sports shoes and knotted dupatta across waist. After huffing and puffing for one hour, she then goes to yoga classes and eats no rice. She once had a 46 inch waist, which is now only 38, as we are told. All this while we poor losers sleep our way to ever expanding waistline.
In this mean world, where everyone is looking for the 'perfect selfie', being branded in the 'MCG' category for long has been stressful. No, its not Melbourne Cricket Ground, its 'motu', 'chotu', 'golu'.
You look at our cinemas.The heroes are lean, muscular, tough characters. And so are the villains. The chubby ones are sidelined to play the role of dumb brothers or stupid nerds in the college. Not only ugliness, even inefficiency is attached with chubbiness. The fat guys are non performing couch potatoes.
So, this extra fat leads to extra stress which in turn leads to more fat and the the vicious circle keeps rolling on.
To break this circle, its important to demolish the very notion that "I am fat". For that, I have decided to come up with factors why I am not fat -
- Most of the Indians are too thin. Half our kids are malnourished. I am just healthy, better than most Indians. You can not blame a guy for the theory of relativity.
- My genetic code leads to round body structure. Being round is not being fat, its just the bone structure.
- My internal organs are prone to frost bite. Hence a thicker insulation layer. This is not being fat.
- This is mere 'character illusion'. 'Branding', some may say. Few people are branded as cool, others as fat. The reality may vary.
- I have a bad dressing sense. Clothes make me look fat. In good dresses, I will be as slim as any one else.
- My stomach keeps food for the longer than average time for digestion. Hence it swells up more. My rest of the body is ok. You can not blame the stomach for trying to digest food in a better way.
- People must not judge a book by its cover. Some faces have 'fat-friendly-package'. It inter-alia doesn't imply fatness.
- It is the fault finding society, that is at fault. when people can not find anything against someone, they use physical appearances as excuse.
- Cameras are made for people with sharp physical and facial features. Light when reflected by round surfaces does not form a sharp image. Hence, people with round faces and figures get their pictures fatter than they truly are. Shame on cameras!
- Normal mortal beings can not appreciate things beyond their time and locality. My body shape and size will be considered ideal in ages to come. I am just ahead of my times.
Hmmm, after making this comprehensive list, I feel confident. To all the people who are being tormented for body shape make your own such list and stick it on the wall of your home. And feel good, feel handsome. Don't let business of fat reducing affect you. Kick them hard. You have got one life only. Sleep, eat and sleep again, as God intended us to do. Everything else is "moh-maya".
P.S. I know there is difference between excuses and solid reasoning. This is the latter one.
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