Daily question responses

How do you feel about body image in our culture? How has weight impacted your life or thinking? How important to you is size?

Honestly I think that people put too much effort into looking good. I mean, maybe I only think that because I myself am over weight, but other than that, I am in good health. I have a high blood count and my blood pressure and cholesterol are fine. I just have an extremely low metabolism. A thyroid condition runs in my family and I might have it so yeah. But seriously. Everyone wants to look like a super model, but most super models are extremely underweight. So they look good, but they also starve themselves. Someone who is 5'6" should have a healthy weight of at most 140, and at least 125 in my opinion. According to the doctors they need to be around 110. Well, what about the people that have thicker bone structure or higher muscle mass? They think they're over weight but they aren't. Muscle and bone are heavier than fat.

I don't really care what people look like. Some people are overweight, some people are freakishly small, so what? If people didn't judge each other a long time ago, why is it so important now? It's like that butter commercial where it says that the people in like the 50's used butter in everything and lots of it, and yet? They were still skinny and still healthy! So why should it make so much of a difference now?

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What is the best plan? And, how equipped are young people to hearing critique and feedback? How do you hear feedback differently from friends, family or teachers? Where did you learn your response to constructive criticism or compliments, for that matter?



I think that if you are honest with someone, no matter what the case be it a compliment or criticism, they will respect you more because you were honest. I am a very honest person and I'm not afraid to speak my mind. I also think that most teens are this way. They may shrug off the comment, or they may take it to heart and change whatever it was, but they can handle it.

Feedback is a very important part of communication. But you do hear it differently from different people. If your friends tell you something, you may choose to listen, or you may not. They are your friends. If your family tells you something, you automatically have that need to fight it, because no matter what they will accept you as a person because you're family and they have to. As for taking it from teachers, people usually shrug it off, but only the ones that aren't serious about what they're doing.

I have learned that if you take things to heart and fix whatever problems others see in you, if you think they are bad as well, you will be a better person. Culture and communication mold people into what they are. If you don't show concern and honesty, if you don't criticize and compliment, people won't change for the better.