I think I will have to start attending my Anger Management
class.
What is it about the state of obesity that makes people, “thinner” people think that they have the right to comment? To tell you how to lose weight. To chastise
you for eating too much, for eating the wrong thing, or at the wrong time? Who
told them that they can even acknowledge that we are overweight?!
Some people are lucky that I don’t carry ammunition!
The fact that you are thin may not be because you are
working harder than I am! I have a friend (one of the few that never judge me,
bless her!) who eats pounded yam in her bed at 9.00 pm every night. She is a
banker and comes home late, has her bath settles in bed she rings for her
dinner. “I like pounded yam. It is my only real meal in the day, after all
those rice and sausage rolls things”.
Pounded yam! Pounded yam? I dare not say it loud because just thinking it can make me add another 2,000 calories. And she has it in bed… at night… after the "rice and sausage roll things!” Life ain’t fair. Did I mention that ‘Dobis’ is a perfect size 10? She’s also a mother of 4 adults. First child is about 30! Yup, life ain’t fair!
Pounded yam! Pounded yam? I dare not say it loud because just thinking it can make me add another 2,000 calories. And she has it in bed… at night… after the "rice and sausage roll things!” Life ain’t fair. Did I mention that ‘Dobis’ is a perfect size 10? She’s also a mother of 4 adults. First child is about 30! Yup, life ain’t fair!
So why compare myself with her? Or with anyone for that
matter? Or bringing it back to my real topic… why should I let anyone compare
me with others, or even worse say it to my face? How dare they?
In the village earlier this year some old uncle of my
husband’s said to me in Igbo. “Nne, ibu erikezi. I ga na-awu jump. Na-agba oso…
odiro nma!” (My dear lady, this fat is plenty o! You need to be jumping up and down, and
running/jogging! This fat is not good!) The nerve! To which I answered, “Taa, mechie gi onu!
Onye gwazi go? Emekatana gwam udi okwu aa ozo! Aru odikwa gi!??” All because I
did not have a gun!
A distant acquaintance, a man, once said from across the room to me at
a social gathering, “Uloms, good to see you o! I see you are doing something about
the weight!” To which I responded, “How is your wife doing?” I knew they had
problems and the wife had just run off to Canada with his children and some
other messy detail about child support, alimony, ownership of the house in Toronto
etc. My simple question/response may well have been a shot from an AK47
considering how silent the room fell.
Yes I am touchy. Yes “we” are touchy… so make una respect
una sef!!!
Oh yeah the translation of what I told the uncle? “Taa,
mechie gi onu! Onye gwazi gi. Emekatana gwam udi okwu aa ozo! Aru odikwa gi!??” (Find
out for yourself jare, I don taya…)
9 comments:
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!! I wish I had seen that poor old man's face! He thought age would insulate him from though the results of his unsolicited comments. Ntoor ya!
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!! I wish I had seen that poor old man's face! He thought age would insulate him from though the results of his unsolicited comments. Ntoor ya!
Where did the nonsense boldness come from? Age, I guess. I also guess he won't be doing that again soon.
Oh my...people should be mindful of. Others feelings though...speaking before processing your words...I know i'm guilty..
Uzo y darling, you are "work in progress", the Lord will deliver you! :)
They don't stop commenting even after you loose weight. I had some person who I would hardly call a acquaintance comment 'I see you have lost weight? Make sure you keep it off oh, don't go back to your old ways oh. To which my reply was 'I see you are now very fair, keep buying the creams oh so you don't go back to your former skin colour! KMT!!
Too funny Uloma! As you know i love to exercise and I have dropped off a few kgs over the years. Anyway in the past year I have put on a few kgs back. I walked into a friend's office and the first sentence that came out of his fat looking lips was "Daba haba what happened to you? You are really fat now" I replied at least "I am still better than that load you call belle in front of you!" The cheek of him. Nice girl continue to put a smile on my face.
Love the part about his "fat looking lips"! Lol! Don't mind all those diarrhea of the mouth patients! But me, I didn't notice any added weight on you at all sha!
I guess that at the end of the day I should cut "them" some slack... You know, it's one of those tricky situations when you "damned if you do and damned if you don't". Basically if you don't say anything to me, then I'm angry with you because I know that you are "thinking" it. But when you do say something, I still resent you for daring to say something. ROTFLMHO
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