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TITLE (EDIT)
Small World After All |
DESCRIPTION
For any male or woman who feels as though they are unattractive due to their weight, please do read this, and find comfort. Thank you.
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AUTHOR
Katherine Smith |
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
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[July 2012] |
AUTHOR'S E-MAIL ADDRESS
xxdeadinredxx@yahoo.com |
AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (43)
A Day At The Shrinks (Poetry) - [124 words]
A Garden Of Hate (Poetry) **I did not see someones submission entitled, "Garden of Love." I do not intend to copy or infringe on someone's work, that is not my intention. My apologies if you feel I have copied or stolen your t... [111 words]
A Little Something To Think About (Poetry) - [94 words]
A Memory Not So Distant (Poetry) Honestly no description is needed, for how can one truly define emotion? [59 words]
Blinded By Sight (Poetry) - [66 words]
Depth Of A Mirror (Poetry) - [285 words]
Eat Away (Poetry) Just another random poem. [159 words]
Fireflies (Songs) - [239 words]
For Dad (Poetry) - [130 words]
Gift Of Greed (Poetry) - [140 words]
Hating (Poetry) - [212 words]
Hell's Forgotten Cry (Poetry) - [125 words]
Here Comes The Manifestation (Poetry) Just a brief recap on where the road of life will take us. [173 words]
Hey Darcy Read (Poetry) - [6 words]
Hollow Jack (Poetry) - [86 words]
If I Should Die Before I Wake (Poetry) - [219 words]
Imposter Of The Party (Poetry) - [196 words]
Isn't It Funny (Songs) well its a break up song for females in particular [290 words] [Relationships]
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Mistake (Poetry) - [169 words]
My 2012 (Poetry) - [137 words]
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On The Ledge (Poetry) - [192 words]
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Perhaps It Was Yesterday (Poetry) - [141 words]
Pledge This America (Poetry) - [98 words]
Political (Poetry) Read "My recurring Dream" to know all about me. [83 words]
S I N (Poetry) i double posted due to messing up on the title lmao ( i do believe) [55 words]
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Uncle D (Poetry) My uncle recently commited suicide and this is a way to be at peace with myself and to move on. [502 words]
What Saved Me (Poetry) Barry, my love, this is for you. [499 words]
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What's Yours Was Always Mine (Poetry) - [94 words]
Withering Away (Poetry) - [126 words]
Woman Beater (Poetry) - [141 words]
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Small World After All
Katherine Smith
In my eyes, Spontaneity was the most attractive of all characteristics an individual may possess. Aside from impulsiveness, morals and values in one hold a special place in my heart, for they truly define that person.
Never, would I have thought that a number on a scale depicted who one was, but in America today, this is what we have accepted and for that we should be ashamed of ourselves.
To place a number and label on someone, or to even establish a size as an average that society must comply with in order to be accepted and to be beautiful, is complete and utter bullshit, if I may say so myself.
Teen years are sought to be the most difficult time in ones’ life; I couldn’t agree more. From breakups to experimentation, that often leads to regret, hormones, and the occasional drama high school itself generally brings, we classify this as typical teen behavior, do we not?
However, ladies and gentleman we have all had a hand in creating America; And by doing so we have turned this normal teen, adolescent behavior into self hate, loss of motivation, and worst of all death.
We have taken beautiful young women and men who are healthy and raped them of their self worth. By placing a number on a television screen, magazine, computer screens, movies, or hell even song lyrics, about what size makes a woman/man attractive, thus worth something. Stereotypes and labels, well is merely society’s way of accepting a behavior less traditional than their own; Thus placing a name on something is a coping mechanism so to speak.
Yet who are we to place a label and stereotype on one for something so personal such as weight and physical appearance? Everyone in this life has choices to make. From religion, style, music appeal, you name it, we decide it. Yet the stereotypes and labels are created mainly about the up most of personal issues, so concluding society fears and rebels against what they do not practice.
Lovely isn’t it? My children, your children, those who already have children, live in a world where one is defined more so by physical appearance, as opposed to morals. From personal experience, I can honestly say the worst heartache, I have suffered in my teen years, is the feeling of inadequacy. Feeling as though I don’t fit a weight (beauty)criteria. Walking out the front door for me is pathetic; I have a glass door and often finding myself looking at my reflection from side to side to see how wide I am, how much my stomach may protrude outward, to see any imperfection my weight can offer me.
This is what has corrupted the minds’ of teen girls and teen boys. Our standards that we set and those who oppose it, myself included, sitting back as spectators and acting upon nothing.
I am proud to say I am 5’7.5 and weigh 180 something pounds, and I like who I am. And after writing this, I will never feel as though I am ugly because of a number on a scale that does not match up with society’s ideal depiction of “appealing.”
Now, you tell me whose more ashamed to show their faces out in the general public, those who weigh more than the average limit, or those who have strived to maintain a one hundred pound weight limitation. Because those people, are really to blame for these stereotypes being created, of course monkey see monkey do, we as society merely stirred the pot for them; Those people however, are too coward to admit they value looks more so than morals and that weight is everything.
It is a small world after all.
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COPYRIGHT NOTICE
© 2009 Katherine Smith |
STORYMANIA PUBLICATION DATE
March 2009 |
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