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This postcard from PostSecret made me realize one of the things that scares me about getting to goal weight.
This is the front of the card:
This is the back of the card:
It reads:
I couldn’t find love when I was young and attractive, because all everyone wanted was sex.
I can’t find love now that I’m old and fat, because all everyone wants is conversation.
Firstly, I wonder exactly what the writer imagines “love” to be. If it’s not sex and it’s not conversation, then I’m at a loss. Throw in a little devotion and I’m all set. Maybe my standards are low…
More importantly, however, I worry about getting to goal weight. When I am thin, will people take me as seriously as they do now? Will I suddenly be classified as a ditz just because I’m physically fit? Will they only think of me a sex object and never listen to a word I say? This is something that I thought I had dealt with long ago, but I guess it’s something that still frightens me a bit.
Of course, another side of me thinks that after a lifetime of being taken seriously, it might be a little nice being treated like a sex object for once…
PostSecret‘s beneficiary is the National Hopeline Network. It is a 24-hour hotline (1 (800) SUICIDE) for anyone who is thinking about suicide or knows someone who is considering it.
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April 4th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Maybe that means he spent so long being a sex object that he never developed conversational skills. That would be a loss.
April 4th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I think it meant that he couldn’t find love when he was “young and attractive”, because no one wanted to talk to him and, now that he’s “old and fat”, no one will have sex with him.
I’ve never EVER been “young and attractive” enough for women to only want to have sex with me.
Boohoo for him. This is the equivalent to a beautiful woman saying “No one will ask me out because I’m too beautiful.”
September 24th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
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Interesteing, Did you know thats the story of Buddha, you always see two types of Buddha the fat one and the skinny one, the reason is, originally Buddha was skinny and attracted a lot of women but it interupted his meditation time so he decided to become fat so he could be in peace, soon enough women were’t that interested and he carried on doing his prayer thing. I run a web site thats all about health and maintaining it, check it out