I Hope You Can See What You Did To Me
To be completely honest I have a lot of things that are going on in my life right now. A lot of very personal things that I don't feel comfortable voicing on such a public platform except to say that they do exist.
I guess the point of this post is about being kind. It is not everyone's job to walk around others on eggshells as though to avoid hurting their feelings but there are certain things that should always be avoided.
Things like someone's weight, appearance, how they look that day, having a mental illness, race, sexual orientation, or anything else you can think of that could possibly be inappropriate to be talking about.
I can admit to myself that I am more sensitive lately and maybe that makes me unable to accurately talk about this topic or maybe, just maybe it makes me exactly the right person to be talking about this.
I have had the unfortunate opportunity to experience a few of these things in the last few weeks. People talking about weight in public will never be okay with me. As someone who has struggled with body image and weight for most of my teenage years and now adult life, it is something I struggle with immensely. To hear others talking about how someone my weight would be considered "extremely fat" or "big as a bus" doesn't make anyone feel good and I can tell you that rather than wanting to feed myself to be healthy it makes me want to skip the food to never feel that way again.
I've also witnessed instances of racial hate and seen the impact it has had on those around me. This is another topic that is not okay to ever talk about and spread and I fail to see a reason why it would ever be done.
Again, maybe I'm the one in the wrong and I'm too "sensitive" but honestly I think that my heightened sensitivity has opened my eyes even further to what is going on around me. My main message here is to be kind. Just be kind every single day, it is the easiest thing you can do.
I guess the point of this post is about being kind. It is not everyone's job to walk around others on eggshells as though to avoid hurting their feelings but there are certain things that should always be avoided.
Things like someone's weight, appearance, how they look that day, having a mental illness, race, sexual orientation, or anything else you can think of that could possibly be inappropriate to be talking about.
I can admit to myself that I am more sensitive lately and maybe that makes me unable to accurately talk about this topic or maybe, just maybe it makes me exactly the right person to be talking about this.
I have had the unfortunate opportunity to experience a few of these things in the last few weeks. People talking about weight in public will never be okay with me. As someone who has struggled with body image and weight for most of my teenage years and now adult life, it is something I struggle with immensely. To hear others talking about how someone my weight would be considered "extremely fat" or "big as a bus" doesn't make anyone feel good and I can tell you that rather than wanting to feed myself to be healthy it makes me want to skip the food to never feel that way again.
I've also witnessed instances of racial hate and seen the impact it has had on those around me. This is another topic that is not okay to ever talk about and spread and I fail to see a reason why it would ever be done.
Again, maybe I'm the one in the wrong and I'm too "sensitive" but honestly I think that my heightened sensitivity has opened my eyes even further to what is going on around me. My main message here is to be kind. Just be kind every single day, it is the easiest thing you can do.
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