The only standards that matter

“OMG! You are like so fat!” “Did you see that girl, she has like ginormous thighs.” “That guy has like so much flab, he so needs to start working out.”

These are words we hear almost every day and are one the causes of conditions like anorexia, amenorrhea, insomnia, and muscle burns. Under the pretense of ‘fitness’ to reach the social standards of ‘physical health’, people are overtaken by ideas of slimming and muscle building. 

Somewhere along the line, ‘fitness’ started to become the exercise and other activities we indulge in to reach social standards of thin women and muscled men. Fitness doesn’t entail the excessive loss of weight or the sudden buildup of muscle by the ingestion of drugs and protein drinks, but the ability to navigate our everyday life without undergoing extreme tiredness or fatigue. 

Becoming a puppet, remodeled by society because it doesn’t accept you for who you are is perhaps the most despicable mannerism that today’s youth is quite actively doing around the globe, and unless each of us speaks up and fights this vile idea, it will very well become not only our future but that of the many generations to come.