How To Be Grateful When You Are Fat

[This post isn’t about Big is Beautiful. Big, small, thin, wiry, fat, deformed, formed all are beautiful if we could see.

This post isn’t about advocating “fatness”. There are real consequences of stressing your heart and bones and organs.

Health isn’t an appearance. It is a complex of your natural body type, genetics, physical/social/cultural circumstances, your ability to cope, adapt and bounce back.

This post is simply about how to be grateful when you are, what mainstream society calls, as “fat”.]

If you are a woman who is going through an emotionally-rough period, be grateful that you are fat for otherwise you would have been taken for a ride by more people and suffer more intense heart breaks and betrayals (I assure you Marilyn Monroe had a fair share of heartbreaks just as Jiah Khan did).

If you are a woman who is emotionally-weak or socially alone at this moment, be grateful that you are fat—the chances of folks introducing you to harsh drugs or giving you unwanted attention is comparatively less.

If you are fat and don’t fit into fancy party or pub flirt-clothes and hence hesitate in going out—be grateful that you will be saving some money.

If you are very fat and hate stepping out of the home, be grateful for you can spend that time reading, writing and reflecting and become wiser as a result.

If you were always fat, be grateful for you know what it is to be on fringes of society, to be an alien, an isolate. You have developed empathy. You are likely to become a better citizen. There is a reason why Santa Claus is fat.

If you are fat and lazy and ravenously hungry all the time, hahahaha, be grateful—Universe has been providing for you and that is how you became fat!

If you were normally “thin” and now you are fat, then be grateful for you have been given an opportunity to see through things and know who is a friend and who is not.

If you were normally “thin” and now you are fat because of a disease, then be grateful for you are learning the art of non-judgmental speaking.

If you are normally “thin” and now you are fat because of a medication, then be grateful because who better than you understands the fallout of modern medical system.

If you are a woman who has been naturally, what society calls—“attractive” most of your life, be grateful for this period of fatness—for you get a breather from that attention.

If you are a woman who is kinda fat, what society calls as “overweight” and still attractive, be grateful that before you begin your intoxicated freefall into your own alluring eyes and lips, your fatness manages to nag you back to reality.

If you are fat, and you get asked on dates by fine men, be grateful that you know men who have the ability to see beyond social-conditioned norms of beauty.

If you are fat and you have been able to reflect on body image and how it oppresses us, be grateful that now, unlike many others, you have become more comfortable being in your skin.

Finally, if you are fat, you have learnt to question notions of beauty and health—be grateful, you are a natural rebel!

[There is something good in all states of being, if we could start believing grass is greener on our side, right now -:)]