Matthew Warner
Published by: Psytext
As a child, I'm more than certain that you have witnessed many forms of bullying, especially pertaining those who are extremely overweight, or noticeably heavy. Most of this takes place when you are children, but that doesn't change the fact that it leaves emotional scars on those who are ostracized. They're interesting part about being overweight when you are a child, is the fact that you are allowed to be picked on. When you on an adult, it seems to be that it is okay to be any size that you want. Disregarding your health, or personal appearance seems to also be running adjacent to carrying out the same actions that have been negative and detrimental to those you used to pick on when you are a thin small child. But at some point, Society decides that it's okay to stop caring, and those same people you picked on are interested into society while their wait grows.
Please think to yourself, how many overweight, bald and glasses wearing adults who have absolutely zero regard for their own well-being but are in some variety of power position got this way? Do you seriously think bullying has no effect? It looks very much like those who had the opportunity to remain their health as children, decided to get lazy after the ostracized those who had other health concerns and then failed to pay attention to them themselves. Now because they have picked out all the other possible threats during childhood, the world becomes a very simple way for them to do whatever they deem necessary to grow a beer belly.
You will always notice more overweight adults, men with giant bellies that look like they're pregnant, and women who simply stopped caring. But over time this simply becomes what is acceptable. The problem not only lies with the emotional scars that it leaves on children who are damaged from constant harassment from their peers, but the fact that those who are perpetrating these actions are simply using it as a form to gain more influence during that time. Afterwards, they lose touch with themselves, and they begin to fall into the realm that determines whether or not they're going to be health care, or positive care as they continue to age. This is not only a societal, emotional for philosophical issue, it dives down deeper into the realm of where resources are being allocated for our aging population.
This is reality. I can guarantee you that this individual was one of the children who used to pick on overweight kids when he was growing up. Now he gets to be the mayor, bleach his hair and being overweight old man. If you did not know who the picture above was, it's Doug Ford, the Premier of Ontario.
The issue is not just only who's doing what, who they're hurting, and where they end up in life, it's why it seems to be acceptable in their adult years. Please consider this, after you have ostracized and emotionally damaged as many people you can, do you not think that it would be easier for you to rise to any form of power, get a better job and then simply disregard anything else?
So the next time you are deciding to pick on a small overweight child, please look in the mirror yourself!
