I have a question.
Why do people feel like they are entitled to an opinion on another person’s body?
Like, do people feel like they are helping the other person by enlightening them about the thing that person lives with and sees day in and day out? Are people just so messed up that they get their kicks by hurting other people, or by trying to hurt other people? Or are people just that insecure about themselves that they have to undermine other people to make themselves feel better? Well, whatever reason a person has it doesn’t matter because you aren’t entitled to that opinion, ever. You are not entitled to an opinion because it isn’t your body. You are not entitled to an opinion because my body isn’t infringing on your life. You aren’t entitled to an opinion because you don’t live with the body you are judging. You may see what I see in the mirror, but you will never hear the thoughts in my head when I see my reflection in the mirror. You don’t have to take in what people like you say about my body.
Regardless of what I say, people will still find the need to tell me what they think about my body, and you know what? I don’t care and I will never care. No matter how hard you try, no matter how cruel and bitter you get, I refuse to lose sleep over the opinions of people who don’t matter to me. And yes, if you make comments about my body I don’t care about you. I refuse to let the hackles and cackles refute my aspirations. I refuse to let those get to me because I know that I will overcome and become a better and more successful person because I fought and worked my hardest. I refuse to retreat in a hail fire of only words. I refuse to waiver into the securities of someone else and you don’t have to either.
Skinny? Cool. Average? Cool. Curvy? Cool. Chunky? Cool. Fat? Cool. Obese? Cool.
It doesn’t matter what your body type is. It doesn’t matter because it doesn’t define you. It doesn’t define who you are as a person. It doesn’t define what you are going to do with your life. It doesn’t define how successful you are going to be. It doesn’t define your profession. It doesn’t define your education. It doesn’t define anything. You are not a number; you are a human being that deserves the respect you deserve.
So the next time you feel the need to comment on someone else’s body, just don't. You shouldn’t comment because you’re wasting your own time. You shouldn’t because you are wasting that other person’s time. You shouldn’t because you aren’t in any imminent bodily danger in the presence of my body. You shouldn’t because whatever it is that you feel is so imperative to say is in all sense of the word: irrelevant. You shouldn’t because in all honesty you are just making yourself look like a giant jerk. Not your body? Then shut up.
